Las cuatro estaciones y un fragmento

Curioso. Algunos poetas habitan seres extraños, por lo general anodinos. Borges y Pessoa, por citar dos. Bibliotecario y empleado bancario. Anidan, se acomodan, se dejan vivir mientras el otro asume los riesgos de la vida. Menos curioso: tienen una compañera que los ama: al empleado lo comprenden y lo apoyan; al poeta lo admiran y le exigen: Maria Kodama y Meiga dos Ventos. Mas curios: Jaime Fernández, empleado de si mismo. Siempre atareado, siempre de a fin, con alguien proyecto entre manos. Su compañera: Gogui, a secas. Lo acompaña, lo comprende,Jo ve correr de un lado a otro, siempre...

Heaviness. Time nullifies the present, it poisons future words. Actions repeat themselves: I breathe the same air, the same place the same memories. Heaviness. In Los dioses sí hablan (The Gods, in Truth, Speak), Claudia Quackenbush voices her encapsulated feelings and experiences that she has enjoyed since her marital romance—maternal expressions, sociopolitical thoughts, even her intimate memories, sending the reader to a world of love which breaks barriers and envelops time. Through her poems, one can envision a love for God and nature, peace, optimism, nostalgia, illusions, desire, as...

Stella Nemo, the most appealing sort of sophisticated naif, plunges her paper ship, the Nautilus, into deepest, blackest space, crossing into the fraught domains of other planets and other minds, beaming requests for information to Ada Byron (a clone and psychic information scientist), and dreaming of the renaissance poet Thomas Wyatt (who exists as data). Stella's mission: to attempt to think and to write without being disturbed, derailed or killed.

Provocative essays on poetry, ballet, and Cuban and world literature by one of Cuba's and Latin America's greatest poets. The only edition authorized by the late poet's estate.