In the Vortex of the Cyclone: Selected Poems by Excilia Saldaña - Softcover

Flora González-Mandri (Edited And Translated By) & Rosamond Rosenmeier (Edited And Translated By)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813064295 ISBN 13: 9780813064291

Publisher: University Press of Florida, 2019

Synopsis

The first-ever bilingual anthology by the Afro-Cuban poet Excilia Saldana contains a wide-ranging selection of her work, from lullabies to an erotic letter, from lengthy autobiographical poems to quiet reflections on her Caribbean island as the inspiration for her writing.

Known in Cuba as a poet, essayist, translator, and professor, Saldana won the prestigious Nicholas Guillen Award for Distinction in Poetry in 1998 and the La Rosa Blanca Prize for La Noche, a children’s book, in 1989. Before her death in 1999, most of her work had appeared in Spanish exclusively in Cuba with only scattered translations. This collection emphasizes her construction of a personal and poetic autobiography to reveal the identity of one of the best Afro-Caribbean poets of the twentieth century.

About this title

About the Author

Flora Gonzalez Mandri, professor emerita of writing, literature, and publishing at Emerson College, is the author of Guarding Cultural Memory: Afro-Cuban Women in Literature and the Arts.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813064295
• ISBN 13: 9780813064291
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144