| The Floating Island Contributor(s): Medina, Pablo (Author) |
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ISBN: 1893996018 ISBN-13: 9781893996014 Publisher: White Pine Press (NY) OUR PRICE: $12.60 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 1999 Annotation: Pablo Medina These poems resonate of paradise, be it imagined, remembered, found, or lost. From simplicity of nocturnes singing of "a nostalgia for what never was" to the complexity of boleros speaking in three languages-love, hope, and betrayal-these poems show us a gifted poet who has grafted the Latin sensibilities of his youth onto an international sense of imagery, rhythm, and vision. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - Hispanic American |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 99042661 |
| Physical Information: 0.28" H x 5.46" W x 8.42" (0.30 lbs) 96 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Poetry. Written in English but infused with a sense of Spanish rhythms and history, THE FLOATING ISLAND is equally an echo of Whitman, Ginsberg and Walcott. The coffee has redeemed itself by now./ I am awake enough to see you walking/ down the street to your apartment/ exhausted like a sparrow/ after long work in the tenements. The eponymous floating island of Pablo Medina's provocative new collection of poems is partly the Cuba of the poet's childhood, partly childhood itself -- country where heart and spirit were strangers equally to loss and to irony . . . -- Carl Phillips. Medina's ARCHING INTO THE AFTERLIFE (1991, Bilingual Press) is also available from SPD. |