| Tokonoma (Bilingual Edition) Contributor(s): Kozer, Jose (Author), Boyle, Peter (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1848613741 ISBN-13: 9781848613744 Publisher: Shearsman Books OUR PRICE: $21.85 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Caribbean & Latin American |
| Dewey: 861.008 |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 6" W x 9" (0.79 lbs) 262 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. A tokonoma is an alcove in a traditional Japanese house, which serves to display a scroll, ikebana or a special painting or print. It is also a kind of code-word in neo-baroque Hispanic writing, having been much used by the movement's founder and inspiration, Cuban poet Jos Lezama Lima. Here the tokonoma is part of Jos Kozer's linguistic armoury: another Cuban poet, but this time one in exile in the USA and, by common consent, the doyen of the current Hispanic neo-baroque. Here Kozer engages with Japanese and Chinese poetry, learning, myth and much more besides. This is Kozer's second collection with Shearsman, following ANIMA (2011). |
Contributor Bio(s): Kozer, Jose: - Jose Kozer (born Havana, 1940) is the son of parents who migrated to Cuba from Poland and Czechoslovakia in the 1920s, and the grandson of a founder of Adath Israel, Cuba's first Ashkenazi synagogue. He studied law at the University of Havana, left Cuba in 1960, and received a BA from New York University in 1965. He taught for many years at Queens College of the City University of New York, retiring as a full professor in 1997, after which he lived for two years in Spain before settling in South Florida. Regarded as the leading Cuban poet of his generation, he is the author of 63 poetry collections, including TOKONOMA (Shearsman Books, 2014), ANIMA (Shearsman Books, 2011), and STET: SELECTED POEMS (Junction Press, 2006). In 2013 he was awarded the "Pablo Neruda" award by the Chilean government, one of the most important literary prizes in the Spanish-speaking world. |