Selected Poems - Softcover

Loynaz, Dulce Maria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857548310 ISBN 13: 9781857548310

Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd, 2007

Synopsis

Dulce Maria Loynaz (1902-1997) has been called Cuba's own Emily Dickinson. Although Loynaz was widely published in Spain during the 1950s and was a close friend of Federico Garcia Lorca, Juan Ramon Jimenez and Gabriela Mistral, her poetry was forbidden in her own country and she herself was ostracised under Castro's dictatorship. Unlike many Cuban writers and intellectuals, Loynaz did not go into exile after the Cuban Revolution. She remained in Cuba, but she never joined the Communist Party and her poetry was considered taboo because of its individualistic, apolitical preoccupations. Loynaz's poetry and prose were not published in Cuba until 1993, a year after she unexpectedly won the Cervantes Prize at the age of 90. Today, Loynaz stands alongside Jose Marti, Nicolas Guillen and Jose Lezama Lima as one of Cuba's greatest cultural icons. The first English publication of her work, "Against Heaven" contains a selection of poems from each of Loynaz's books translated by James O'Connor, including the acclaimed prose poems from "Poems with No Names", and a selection of posthumously published work.

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About the Author

Dulce Maria Loynaz (1902 - 1997) was born in Cuba. One of the greatest Cuban poets and novelists, she was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy of Language and was awarded the Cervantes Prize in Literature in 1992. Dulce Maria Loynaz died in Havana, Cuba in 1997.

Edition details

• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1857548310
• ISBN 13: 9781857548310
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 244