Description
Book SynopsisCovering eight decades and featuring the work of over fifty poets from diverse backgrounds born between 1902 and 1981,
Only the Road / Solo el Camino is the most complete bilingual anthology of Cuban poetry available to an English readership.
Trade Review"Randall’s collection of poetry is encyclopedic, including a vast stylistic range representative of a range of generations, some little-known voices as well as a number of LGBTQ writers. . . . Those that love poetry and are interested in seeing the work of Cubans, and especially those that also speak Spanish, should get this excellent collection." * Seattle Book Mama *
"This anthology serves as a broad, bilingual survey of Cuban poets born during the twentieth century. Special attention is paid to diversity, with women making up nearly half of the authors represented. While it’s difficult to make generalizations about style with so many on display, the sum effect is that of a time-lapse shot taken over multiple generations that shows a kind of undeniable truth about the essence of Cuban poets and their craft." * World Literature Today *
"I recommend
Only the Road/Solo el camino highly. It’s a beautiful collection of poetry, some that has not been published in English translation and will be new to readers. It is also a corrective to the biased view of Cuban literature as repressed or propaganda depending on how widely published it is. We are opening up to Cuba finally, so it is incumbent on us to understand it better and how better than through its poetry." * Tonstant Weader *
"Including the work of Cuban poets living both on and off the island, this beautifully edited work is one of the most comprehensive volumes of contemporary Cuban poetry translated into English. . . . Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers."
-- Y. Fuentes * Choice *
"Impeccably designed . . . An anthology that is very representative of Cuba’s poetic output." -- Marithelma Costa * Literature and Arts of the Americas *
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1
Nicholás Guillén 22
Dulce María Loynaz 30
Emilio Ballagas 40
Felix Pita Rodríguez 50
José Lezama Lima 56
Virgilio Piñera 64
Mirta Aguirre 72
Samuel Feijóo 80
Gastón Baquero 86
Cleva Solís 96
Eliseo Diego 102
Cintio Vitier 116
Fina García Marruz 126
Carilda Oliver Labra 134
Fayad Jamís 142
Pablo Armando Fernández 152
Roberto Fernández Retamar 160
Heberto Padilla 170
Antón Arrufat 176
Georgina Herrera 188
Lourdes Casal 198
Miguel Barnet 204
Basilia Papastamatíu 210
José Kozer 216
Belkis Cuza Malé 224
Luis Rogelio Nogueras 232
Nancy Morejón 238
Minerva Salado 250
Lina de Feria 256
Magali Alabau 262
Excilia Saldaña 270
Mirta Yáñez 278
Raul Hernández Novás 284
Luis Lorente 294
José Pérez Olivares 302
Soleida Ríos 310
Norberto Codina 320
Reina María Rodríguez 332
Alex Fleites 348
Victor Rodríguez Núñez 356
Marilyn Bobes 372
Alfredo Zaldívar 380
Ángel Escobar 390
Ramón Fernández-Larrea 400
Sigfredo Ariel 410
Alberto Rodríguez Tosca 418
Caridad Atencio 426
Omar Pérez López 432
Laura Ruiz Montes 438
Damaris Calderón 448
María Elena Hernández 454
Alessandra Molina 464
Milena Rodríguez Gutiérrez 470
Israel Domínguez 478
Luis Yuseff 486
Anisley Negrín Ruiz 494
Acknowledgments 501
Sources 505
