Cointa G. Martin was born in Havana, Cuba, and now lives in Miami, Florida. He received a bachelor of arts degree in literature (Doctor en Filosofia in Spanish) from Florida International University in 2012. His doctoral thesis, Mundos prohibidos: el poder en el discurso epistolar de Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Juana Borrero.

History, passion and art are the thematic axes on which revolve the more than 200 letters that the young Cuban poet, Juana Borrero, wrote to the poet from Matanzas, Carlos Pius Uhrbach. Yes, they are love letters, but they...