Burnt Sugar Cana Quemada: Contemporary Cuban Poetry in English and Spanish AUTH-2295531 transliteration and complete English translations

transliteration and complete English translations

Su Dongpo's sigh of older age carries a tender resolve laced with measured sorrow:

from humble origins

Her work brings a mythic awareness and a sensuous musicality that is at the same time disquieting

and Why It Still Matters

Burnt Sugar Cana Quemada: Contemporary Cuban Poetry in English and Spanish AUTH-2295531 transliteration and complete English translationsHere are the sights, sounds, and rhythms of Cuba, revealed in the evocative works of some of the finest Cuban and Cuban American poets of the twentieth century. In Burnt Sugar, bestselling translator Lori Marie Carlson and Pulitzer Prize winning author Oscar Hijuelos have created an intimate collection of some of their favorite modern poems, all of which are informed by cubana the essence of what it means to be Cuban. "Cuban" in this sense refers