Thursday, October 29, 2009

CUBAN POETRY.



Literature at Americas Society

Americas Society ¦ 680 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10065 ¦ www.americas-society.org
Book presentation and readings (bilingual)

The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry
University of California Press

Thursday, November 5
7:00 pm
Free admission

Editor Mark Weiss will read with Christopher Winks, Margaret Carson, and Iraida Iturralde from his new anthology, the first comprehensive bilingual overview of Cuban poetry to be published during the past sixty years, compiling a breadth of iconic authors including Nicolás Guillén, José Lezama Lima, and Nancy Morejón, as well as poets who remain almost unknown to the English-speaking world, such as Fina García Marruz, José Kozer, and Raúl Hernández Novas. The anthology is an essential source for understanding the literature and culture of Cuba, its diaspora, and the Caribbean at large. "A masterwork of cartography: a map of what is, for English-language readers, an almost entirely unexplored territory, full of poets at home or in the diaspora whom we ought to know."—Eliot Weinberger

This event has been organized in collaboration with the Cuban Cultural Center of New York

Reservations:
Americas Society Members: Reserve today at membersres@americas-society.org.
Non-Members: Reservations open today. Reserve online today.

Americas Society gratefully acknowledges the generous support of our Literature Program donors: Honorary Benefactor Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, The Reed Foundation, and the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Culture and U.S. Universities. The Literature Program is also made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. In-kind support is provided by the Salón Literario Libroamérica.


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