An Island in Limbo: Three books
Three voices from an island that has disappeared from the collective imagination, or perhaps it only survives in that imagination.
Book Reviews
Cuban poetry
Essays
The Click (Miniature X)
The Ghost of J. C. Flores challenges criticism, the canon, academia, and the market in contemporary poetry today.
Essays
Bloodshot Eyes
In the annals of Cuban poetry, the work of Ángel Escobar is that point in the void that you feel narrowing, that flows.
Book Reviews
Notes on a Healing
A literary procedure of healing that transforms pain and illness into poetic art, documenting the intimate experience of body and mind.
Book Reviews
‘Sinalectas’: Verbal Artifact for Viewing
A poetic laboratory where word and image confront and balance each other to distill perception, eliminating ornamentation until only the tension between the visible and its void remains.
Essays
On this Journey Toward Death
In Baquero’s work, death is a constant presence and a central theme that fuels the imagination as a form of resistance against oblivion.
Essays
Lines of Alamar: ‘El Contragolpe’, Reading Notes
With a prosody of rubble, Juan Carlos Flores turned the horizontality of collapse into the only possible place to found an epic.
Inquisitions
Edwin Reyes Zamora: “Every ‘renewal’ movement starts with destruction”
‘Psicofonía’, a book conceived as a fragmentary and spectral device where language confronts its own limits to reveal the unspeakable.
Inquisitions
Zulema Gutiérrez: “I believe in the profoundly liberating possibility of poetry without a self”
Writing like disassembling a body: conversation with Zulema Gutiérrez about her latest book.
Inquisitions
Ana G. Ramos: “Modern poetry is facing its own irrelevance”
Ana G. Ramos talks to us about the agony of modern poetry: an irremediable glitch in the matrix of human irrelevance.