-The definitive version of Lorca's masterpiece, in language that is as alive and molten today as was the original.---John Ashbery Newly translated for the first time in ten years, Federico Garcia Lorca's Poet in New York is an astonishing depiction of a tumultuous metropolis that changed the course of poetic expression in both Spain and the Americas. Written during Lorca's nine months at Columbia University at the beginning of the Great Depression, Poet in New York is widely considered one of the most important books Lorca produced. This influential collection portrays a New...
-The definitive version of Lorca's masterpiece, in language that is as alive and molten today as was the original.---John Ashbery Newly translated...
A major new novel of exile is offered by the author of the critically acclaimed Marks of Birth. Set in New York, Miami, and Barata, an imaginary island in the Caribbean, the novel explores the condition of expatriation, this time from the vantage point of an exile who returns.
A major new novel of exile is offered by the author of the critically acclaimed Marks of Birth. Set in New York, Miami, and Barata, an imaginary islan...
A happy, middle-class childhood lived in the shadows of sweeping social change and oncoming revolution -- such was the experience of novelist Pablo Medina. In this memoir, Medina revisits his curious double world, recalling the pre-revolutionary Cuba of his first twelve years, 1948-1960. His recollections move easily from his childhood adventures to warm remembrances of family and friends to his growing awareness of the social conflicts that would ultimately send his family into exile in the United States. Medina also draws on the memories of his elders to extend his memoir back to the Cuban...
A happy, middle-class childhood lived in the shadows of sweeping social change and oncoming revolution -- such was the experience of novelist Pablo Me...
