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Poetry

Always Rebellious / Cimarroneando
Selected Poetry by: Georgina Herrera
Translator(s): María Rodriguez-Alcalá, Juanamaría Cordones-Cook and Alexander Michael Cordones Cook
ISBN: 978-0-9827860-6-2
This bilingual volume of poetry introduces the unique voice of Cuban writer Georgina Herrera.
Of African descent, Georgina Herrera (April 23, 1936–) was born in Jovellanos, the capital of Matanzas, to a family with great pride in its racial pedigree. From an uneducated background, she was brought up in an environment lacking in basic material resources, let alone books. This home was controlled by a repressive patriarchal hand with rules of obedience that discouraged thinking, and therefore, by extension, incomprehensive of this daughter’s rebellious spirited and poetic inclination.
In any case, Georgina never considered submission a viable alternative. Authoritarian parenting could not contain her creative genius nor tame her independent spirit. It prompted within her a contrarian reaction, fanning an irrepressible cimarron rebelliousness that would lead the poet to express an overflowing creativity.
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Homing Instincts / Querencias
Author: Nancy Morejón
Translator(s): Pamela Carmell
ISBN: 978-0-982-7860-5-5
The poems in this collection, most translated for the first time, span a broad spectrum of love: love of family and friends, love of homeland and Havana, romantic love, lost love, the exaltation of a goddess of love, and the adoring love of Cuban artists past and present.
Of that wide-ranging love, Ms. Morejón has said, "Formo parte de una familia, una comunidad, de una nación de las que no he querido ni podido apartarme sino que las reclamo con amor en cada uno de mis gestos." (I am part of a family, a community, a nation—all of which I haven't wanted to leave behind, but rather to reach out to them with love in every one of my actions [acceptance speech, Golden Wreath Award, Struga, Macedonia, 2006]).
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Flocks / Rebaños
Author: Zurelys López Amaya
Translator(s): Jeffrey C. Barnett
ISBN: 978-1-944176-08-2
This bilingual volume of poetry presents the heart-wrenching, critical and rebellious voice of Zurelys López Amaya.
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The Visits and Other Poems/Las visitas y otros poemas
Author: Mirta Yáñez
Translator(s): Elizabeth Miller
ISBN: 978-0-9827860-2-4
In this fresh handful of poems, Time is given to us, not as a concept but as an experience, a vital participation in its flowing and resonance in a sensitive personal pace diapason, capable of responding harmoniously to the signals that flow from all corners of a lively city--Havana, visited by a refined, vibrant poetic temperament. Bilingual Spanish/English edition.
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