La Detencion Del Tiempo/time's Arrest

Poetry. Translated from the Spanish by Kristin Dykstra. Includes Spanish and English. Reina Maria Rodriguez is the author of many books of poetry and prose-and something of a living legend in Havana's literary world. These poems are selected from EN LA ARENA DE PADUA (1992), the book that established the language of crisis for which she is known today. Haunting poems explore the ghosts of people, places, economies, and time itself. Includes a translator's note by Dykstra and an afterward by Roberto Tejada that together help situate Rodriguez (and other recent Cuban poetry) in historical terms. "This poetry expresses the necessity not of phrase or stanza, not of breath or idea . . . but of motion"--Charles Bernstein.Rodríguez, Reina María is the author of 'La Detencion Del Tiempo/time's Arrest ', published 2005 under ISBN 9781600019968 and ISBN 160001996X.