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Only the Road / Solo el Camino Margaret Randall

Only the Road / Solo el Camino By Margaret Randall

Only the Road / Solo el Camino by Margaret Randall


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Covering eight decades and featuring the work of over fifty poets from diverse backgrounds born between 1902 and 1981, Only the Road / Solo el Camino is the most complete bilingual anthology of Cuban poetry available to an English readership.

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Only the Road / Solo el Camino: Eight Decades of Cuban Poetry by Margaret Randall

Featuring the work of more than fifty poets writing across the last eight decades, Only the Road / Solo el Camino is the most complete bilingual anthology of Cuban poetry available to an English readership. It is distinguished by its stylistic breadth and the diversity of its contributors, who come from throughout Cuba and its diaspora and include luminaries, lesser-known voices, and several Afro-Cuban and LGBTQ poets. Nearly half of the poets in the collection are women. Only the Road paints a full and dynamic picture of modern Cuban life and poetry, highlighting their unique features and idiosyncrasies, the changes across generations, and the ebbs and flows between repression and freedom following the Revolution. Poet Margaret Randall, who translated each poem, contributes extensive biographical notes for each poet and a historical introduction to twentieth-century Cuban poetry.

Only the Road / Solo el Camino Reviews

Randall's collection of poetry is encyclopedic, including a vast stylistic range representative of a range of generations, some little-known voices as well as a number of LGBTQ writers. . . . Those that love poetry and are interested in seeing the work of Cubans, and especially those that also speak Spanish, should get this excellent collection. * Seattle Book Mama *
This anthology serves as a broad, bilingual survey of Cuban poets born during the twentieth century. Special attention is paid to diversity, with women making up nearly half of the authors represented. While it's difficult to make generalizations about style with so many on display, the sum effect is that of a time-lapse shot taken over multiple generations that shows a kind of undeniable truth about the essence of Cuban poets and their craft. * World Literature Today *
I recommend Only the Road/Solo el camino highly. It's a beautiful collection of poetry, some that has not been published in English translation and will be new to readers. It is also a corrective to the biased view of Cuban literature as repressed or propaganda depending on how widely published it is. We are opening up to Cuba finally, so it is incumbent on us to understand it better and how better than through its poetry. * Tonstant Weader *
Including the work of Cuban poets living both on and off the island, this beautifully edited work is one of the most comprehensive volumes of contemporary Cuban poetry translated into English. . . . Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers.
-- Y. Fuentes * Choice *
Impeccably designed . . . An anthology that is very representative of Cuba's poetic output. -- Marithelma Costa * Literature and Arts of the Americas *

About Margaret Randall

Margaret Randall is the author of dozens of books of poetry and prose, including Haydee Santamaria, Cuban Revolutionary: She Led by Transgression and Che on My Mind, both also published by Duke University Press.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1
Nicholas Guillen 22
Dulce Maria Loynaz 30
Emilio Ballagas 40
Felix Pita Rodriguez 50
Jose Lezama Lima 56
Virgilio Pinera 64
Mirta Aguirre 72
Samuel Feijoo 80
Gaston Baquero 86
Cleva Solis 96
Eliseo Diego 102
Cintio Vitier 116
Fina Garcia Marruz 126
Carilda Oliver Labra 134
Fayad Jamis 142
Pablo Armando Fernandez 152
Roberto Fernandez Retamar 160
Heberto Padilla 170
Anton Arrufat 176
Georgina Herrera 188
Lourdes Casal 198
Miguel Barnet 204
Basilia Papastamatiu 210
Jose Kozer 216
Belkis Cuza Male 224
Luis Rogelio Nogueras 232
Nancy Morejon 238
Minerva Salado 250
Lina de Feria 256
Magali Alabau 262
Excilia Saldana 270
Mirta Yanez 278
Raul Hernandez Novas 284
Luis Lorente 294
Jose Perez Olivares 302
Soleida Rios 310
Norberto Codina 320
Reina Maria Rodriguez 332
Alex Fleites 348
Victor Rodriguez Nunez 356
Marilyn Bobes 372
Alfredo Zaldivar 380
Angel Escobar 390
Ramon Fernandez-Larrea 400
Sigfredo Ariel 410
Alberto Rodriguez Tosca 418
Caridad Atencio 426
Omar Perez Lopez 432
Laura Ruiz Montes 438
Damaris Calderon 448
Maria Elena Hernandez 454
Alessandra Molina 464
Milena Rodriguez Gutierrez 470
Israel Dominguez 478
Luis Yuseff 486
Anisley Negrin Ruiz 494
Acknowledgments 501
Sources 505

Additional information

CIN0822362295G
9780822362296
0822362295
Only the Road / Solo el Camino: Eight Decades of Cuban Poetry by Margaret Randall
Used - Good
Paperback
Duke University Press
2016-10-17
528
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