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Other Letters to Milena is a translation of a mixedgenre work by acclaimed Cuban poet Reina María Rodríguez in which poetry merges into creative nonfiction, culminating in a series of essays. Published in Spanish as Otras cartas a Milena, Other Letters to Milena shows Rodríguez confronting pressing issues at the turn of the twenty first century. These involve a new postSoviet world and the realities of diasporic existence, which have a profound effect even on people like Rodríguez who have not migrated but continue to live and work in their home nation. The book's title references Franz Kafka, whose Letters to Milena was published after his death in 1952, signals that Rodríguez participates in her city's long cosmopolitan tradition asserted by Cuban writers and scholars of Cuban literature. Rodríguez's youngest daughter, featured most prominently in the letters making up the collection's centerpiece, A Girl's Story, was named after Milena Jesenská, the recipient of Kafka's letters

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      Publisher The University of Alabama Press
      Published 12/20/2014 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780817358013
      978-0817358013
      ISBN-10 0817358013

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      Book Synopsis
      Other Letters to Milena is a translation of a mixedgenre work by acclaimed Cuban poet Reina María Rodríguez in which poetry merges into creative nonfiction, culminating in a series of essays. Published in Spanish as Otras cartas a Milena, Other Letters to Milena shows Rodríguez confronting pressing issues at the turn of the twenty first century. These involve a new postSoviet world and the realities of diasporic existence, which have a profound effect even on people like Rodríguez who have not migrated but continue to live and work in their home nation. The book's title references Franz Kafka, whose Letters to Milena was published after his death in 1952, signals that Rodríguez participates in her city's long cosmopolitan tradition asserted by Cuban writers and scholars of Cuban literature. Rodríguez's youngest daughter, featured most prominently in the letters making up the collection's centerpiece, A Girl's Story, was named after Milena Jesenská, the recipient of Kafka's letters

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