English Poems by a Cuban

English Poems by a Cuban PDF Author: Alejandro Roque Glez
Publisher: Alejandro's Libros
ISBN: 1463593503
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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The author of these beautiful poems was born in Habana City, Cuba on April1964 and at present he resides in South Florida, United States. Among his writings are poems of different themes; other extensive works of prophetical and biblical character as the books '¡Tierra, tierra, tierra! Oye Palabra de Yahweh' and 'Revelation of Saint John. Interpretation of the Book'. Travel stories, theatrical plays, written political articles related with what is happening worldwide and in his native country, much of them written in Spanish language; in addition his very well-known autobiographical book `Born Motherland or Death' in both languages. It also compiles two books of Christian psalms and praises, and the literary work 'Adventures of Victorino Chang'.Here we bring you the books: `English poems by A Cuban' and 'BMD Poems of a Dreamer', both compiling all together thirty one thoughtful poems. The ones in the first book were originally and only written in English during the years 2006-2010; the second translated by the author, and where poetry and literature resound with beauty and strength.As a complementary data about the author's educational trajectory: he is a graduate from Nova Southeastern University (NSU) with a Master of Science (MS) in Spanish Language Education; graduated from Florida Atlantic University (FAU) with a Bachelor in Arts and Spanish Language, both in United States; and graduated as a jet military air-force-combat pilot and tactical command from Krasnodar High Military Aviation College of pilots A.K. Serov in the USSR.Poems:-Cross it.-Come...please...come!-I promise.-On you, oh God.-Grandma we are coming, stay with us.-Alexandra! -Dawn will top the crown.-Two years.-My Preferred One.-What we can.-In our world-The fear to be somewhere.-Yesterday was a first time ever.-A rose unique as light.-Virginia and Atlanta.-America wake up.-Love open its way.-Listen Adam.-The Lost Time.-Mother's Day.-Drums of Humanity.-Life is not a Dreamed Path.-Not fearing but Hoping.-Aviation, Shackles, and Fetters.-I want to Mean and Write.-Creator and Guide.-A Day will Come.-On Foot, Walking Up.-Guardian Wake me Up.-The Boy called Freedom.-Your Holy Name.

English Poems by a Cuban

English Poems by a Cuban PDF Author: Alejandro Roque Glez
Publisher: Alejandro's Libros
ISBN: 1463593503
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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Book Description
The author of these beautiful poems was born in Habana City, Cuba on April1964 and at present he resides in South Florida, United States. Among his writings are poems of different themes; other extensive works of prophetical and biblical character as the books '¡Tierra, tierra, tierra! Oye Palabra de Yahweh' and 'Revelation of Saint John. Interpretation of the Book'. Travel stories, theatrical plays, written political articles related with what is happening worldwide and in his native country, much of them written in Spanish language; in addition his very well-known autobiographical book `Born Motherland or Death' in both languages. It also compiles two books of Christian psalms and praises, and the literary work 'Adventures of Victorino Chang'.Here we bring you the books: `English poems by A Cuban' and 'BMD Poems of a Dreamer', both compiling all together thirty one thoughtful poems. The ones in the first book were originally and only written in English during the years 2006-2010; the second translated by the author, and where poetry and literature resound with beauty and strength.As a complementary data about the author's educational trajectory: he is a graduate from Nova Southeastern University (NSU) with a Master of Science (MS) in Spanish Language Education; graduated from Florida Atlantic University (FAU) with a Bachelor in Arts and Spanish Language, both in United States; and graduated as a jet military air-force-combat pilot and tactical command from Krasnodar High Military Aviation College of pilots A.K. Serov in the USSR.Poems:-Cross it.-Come...please...come!-I promise.-On you, oh God.-Grandma we are coming, stay with us.-Alexandra! -Dawn will top the crown.-Two years.-My Preferred One.-What we can.-In our world-The fear to be somewhere.-Yesterday was a first time ever.-A rose unique as light.-Virginia and Atlanta.-America wake up.-Love open its way.-Listen Adam.-The Lost Time.-Mother's Day.-Drums of Humanity.-Life is not a Dreamed Path.-Not fearing but Hoping.-Aviation, Shackles, and Fetters.-I want to Mean and Write.-Creator and Guide.-A Day will Come.-On Foot, Walking Up.-Guardian Wake me Up.-The Boy called Freedom.-Your Holy Name.

The Island of My Hunger

The Island of My Hunger PDF Author: Francisco Morán
Publisher: City Lights Books
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Poems by some of today's most interesting and talented Cuban poets.

The Whole Island

The Whole Island PDF Author: Mark Weiss
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520944534
Category : Poetry
Languages : es
Pages : 622

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Cuba's cultural influence throughout the Western Hemisphere, and especially in the United States, has been disproportionally large for so small a country. This landmark volume is the first comprehensive overview of poetry written over the past sixty years. Presented in a beautiful Spanish-English en face edition, The Whole Island makes available the astonishing achievement of a wide range of Cuban poets, including such well-known figures as Nicolás Guillén, José Lezama Lima, and Nancy Morejón, but also poets widely read in Spanish who remain almost unknown to the English-speaking world—among them Fina García Marruz, José Kozer, Raúl Hernández Novás, and Ángel Escobar—and poets born since the Revolution, like Rogelio Saunders, Omar Pérez, Alessandra Molina, and Javier Marimón. The translations, almost all of them new, convey the intensity and beauty of the accompanying Spanish originals. With their work deeply rooted in Cuban culture, many of these poets—both on and off the island—have been at the center of the political and social changes of this tempestuous period. The poems offered here constitute an essential source for understanding the literature and culture of Cuba, its diaspora, and the Caribbean at large, and provide an unparalleled perspective on what it means to be Cuban.

The Surrender Tree

The Surrender Tree PDF Author: Margarita Engle
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805086744
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Cuba has fought three wars for independence, and still she is not free. This history in verse creates a lyrical portrait of Cuba.

Everything I Kept

Everything I Kept PDF Author: Ruth Behar
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997228724
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Moving between the speech and silence of a woman struggling to speak freely, Ruth Behar embarks on a poetic voyage into her own vulnerability and the sacrifices of her exiled ancestors as she tries to understand love, loss, regret, and the things we keep and carry with us. Behar's vivid renderings of wilted gardens, crashing waves, and firefly-lit nights recall the imagery of her inspiration, Dulce María Loynaz, who is often known as the Cuban Emily Dickinson. Presented in a beautiful bilingual English-Spanish edition--Behar serves as her own translator--Everything I Kept/Todo lo que guardé will haunt readers with the cries and whispers which illuminate the human spirit and the spectrum of emotions that make for a life and lives well-remembered.

Women Writing Resistance

Women Writing Resistance PDF Author: Jennifer Browdy
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 080708820X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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Essays on Latinx and Caribbean identity and on globalization by renowned women writers, including Julia Alvarez, Edwidge Danticat, and Jamaica Kincaid Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean gathers the voices of sixteen acclaimed writer-activists for a one-of-a-kind collection. Through poetry and essays, writers from the Anglophone, Hispanic, and Francophone Caribbean, including Puertorriqueñas and Cubanas, grapple with their hybrid American political identities. Gloria Anzaldúa, the founder of Chicana queer theory; Rigoberta Menchú, the first Indigenous person to win a Nobel Peace Prize; and Michelle Cliff, a searing and poignant chronicler of colonialism and racism, among many others, highlight how women can collaborate across class, race, and nationality to lead a new wave of resistance against neoliberalism, patriarchy, state terrorism, and white supremacy.

City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology

City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology PDF Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Publisher: City Lights Books
ISBN: 0872866793
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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A comprehensive selection from Ferlinghetti's famed City Lights Pocket Poets Series, published on the 60th anniversary of its founding.

Poesías Escogidas

Poesías Escogidas PDF Author: Nicolás Guillén
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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In calling this collection Yoruba from Cuba, a phrase from the poem 'Son Número 6', the translator, Salvador Ortiz-Carboneres, draws attention to Guillén's pioneering embrace, more than sixty years ago, of an African identity in Cuba. His selection shows Guillén constantly returning to the theme of race and the historical legacies of slavery in both the Caribbean and the USA. But in poems such as 'Balada de los Dos Abuelos', Guillén is also seen stressing the mulatez heterogeneity of Cuban culture in drawing on African, European and other immigrant traditions. As a life-long Marxist and anti-imperialist, Guillén celebrated the Cuban revolution, including the heroic example of Che Guevara, but he also addressed the tendency to a repressive puritanism within the ruling party in such important poems as 'Digo que yo no soy un hombre puro'. In this dual language selection of one of the outstanding poets of the Hispanic world, Salvador Ortiz-Carboneres has created lively, very readable English versions that capture both the colloquial vigour of Guillén's language and the incantatory rhythms of those of the poems where he draws on the dance patterns of the Cuban 'son'. The selection covers the range of Guillén's work from Poemas de Transición (1927-1931) up to poems from La Rueda Dentada and El Diario que a Diario, both of 1972. With a translator's preface, an introduction by the distinguished scholar of Cuban culture, Professor Alistair Hennessy, notes, a chronology and a reading list, this is an edition that will bring Guillén's powerful and epochal poetry to both the general reader and to the student. His work is unquestionably one of the towering landmarks of Caribbean poetry. Salvador Ortiz-Carboneres teaches Spanish language and Latin American poetry at the Language Centre, University of Warwick.

Directions to the Beach of the Dead

Directions to the Beach of the Dead PDF Author: Richard Blanco
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816524792
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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In his second book of narrative, lyric poetry, Richard Blanco explores the familiar, unsettling journey for home and connections, those anxious musings about other lives: ÒShould I live here? Could I live here?Ó Whether the exotic (ÒIÕm struck with Maltese fever ÉI dream of buying a little Maltese farmÉ) or merely different (ÒToday, home is a cottage with morning in the yawn of an open windowÉÓ), he examines the restlessness that threatens from merely staying put, the fear of too many places and too little time. The words are redolent with his Cuban heritage: Marina making mole sauce; T’a Ida bitter over the revolution, missing the sisters who fled to Miami; his father, especially, Òhis hair once as black as the black of his oxfordsÉÓ Yet this is a volume for all who have longed for enveloping arms and words, and for that sanctuary called home. ÒSo much of my life spent like this-suspended, moving toward unknown places and names or returning to those I know, corresponding with the paradox of crossing, being nowhere yet here.Ó Blanco embraces juxtaposition. There is the Cuban Blanco, the American Richard, the engineer by day, the poet by heart, the rhythms of Spanish, the percussion of English, the first-world professional, the immigrant, the gay man, the straight world. There is the ennui behind the question: why cannot I not just live where I live? Too, there is the precious, fleeting relief when he can write "ÉI am, for a moment, not afraid of being no more than what I hear and see, no more than this:..." It is what we all hope for, too.

Dreaming in Cuban

Dreaming in Cuban PDF Author: Cristina García
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307798003
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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“Impressive . . . [Cristina García’s] story is about three generations of Cuban women and their separate responses to the revolution. Her special feat is to tell it in a style as warm and gentle as the ‘sustaining aromas of vanilla and almond,’ as rhythmic as the music of Beny Moré.”—Time Cristina García’s acclaimed book is the haunting, bittersweet story of a family experiencing a country’s revolution and the revelations that follow. The lives of Celia del Pino and her husband, daughters, and grandchildren mirror the magical realism of Cuba itself, a landscape of beauty and poverty, idealism and corruption. Dreaming in Cuban is “a work that possesses both the intimacy of a Chekov story and the hallucinatory magic of a novel by Gabriel García Márquez” (The New York Times). In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the novel’s original publication, this edition features a new introduction by the author. Praise for Dreaming in Cuban “Remarkable . . . an intricate weaving of dramatic events with the supernatural and the cosmic . . . evocative and lush.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Captures the pain, the distance, the frustrations and the dreams of these family dramas with a vivid, poetic prose.”—The Washington Post “Brilliant . . . With tremendous skill, passion and humor, García just may have written the definitive story of Cuban exiles and some of those they left behind.”—The Denver Post