Radamés Suárez Reinaldo Arenas was born on July 16, 1943 in the Cuban easternmost province of Oriente, the illegitimate son of José Arenas and Oneida Fuentes. Raised in poverty in the countryside, he grew up to be one of the most talented and prolific writers of the Hispanic World despite the relative cultural sterility of …
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Cabrera, Yoandy (ed.). Equívocos / Misconceptions. Early 21st Century Cuban Poets. kýrne and LPRC Department at Rockford University, 2021. Printed Book: Available on Amazon Ebook: Available on Google Play This bilingual anthology of contemporary Cuban poets began as a project within the Advanced Translation Theory and Practice class taught by Dr. Yoandy Cabrera in Spring …
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Introductory Note by Dr. Yoandy Cabrera Jorge Luis Arcos, like Fina García-Marruz, is one of those writers for whom essay, analysis, and poetry intersect and complement each other. Though he was old enough to belong to those known as “Generación de los 80,” he began to publish his poetry with the next batch of authors, …
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Alyssa Giardono During ancient Grecian times, some of the shared traditions we still have today consist of rights to a proper burial. Antigone was a woman who lived to see the death of her brother, Polynices. When he was killed, the ruler of her city, who was also her uncle, forbade Antigone from burying him. …
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To Walt Whitman Wilma Anderson, '24 You overwhelm me, Walt Whitman, With your gutter songs and your God songs, With your songs without rhyme and meter, With your triumphant audacity that ignores the fetters of classical bondage. You are the poet of all thoughts, of all men and women, and of the inanimate things which …
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Introductory Note by Dr. Yoandy Cabrera Dashel Hernández Guirado has published three collections of poems. His poetry moves between elements of Neo-romanticism, an enormous degree of expressiveness and fluidity, parody, metalinguistics, and culturalism. For Hernández, there is, essentially, a cherished lyrical “tú” (you) whom the poetic “yo” often addresses. His poetry merges Neoplatonism, homoeroticism, and …
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José Ramón Alonso-Lorea El amor rompe esas nubes y apaga tristezas, sóloquisiera sacarme el almapara quererte del todoo que tu vida, amor mío,que veo torre se haga pozoque en mí se clave, se pierda,como un reflejo sonorode mi sueño, de ese sueñoque se me va de los ojos.“Romance.” De Manuel Altolaguirre a María Luisa Gómez …
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Nota introductoria Yoandy Cabrera Hace meses, Delfín Prats y yo nos hemos intercambiado correos sobre el poema que hoy presento al lector de nuestra revista. La primera vez que me lo dio a revisar fue en septiembre de 2019, hace ya un año y 4 meses. De entonces a acá, el autor le ha dado …
Justo Antonio Triana Agosto 8 de 2019 Es una discusión bastante fuerte… Suena el teléfono, y lo aprovecho para despejar. “Es mi mamá” —me justifico. Salgo, busco buena cobertura por la casa, y me detengo en el patín. Escucho; cuelgo catatónico. Regreso al cuarto: “Me voy el mes que viene.” Ella me mira incrédula; piensa …
Yoandy Cabrera Magali Alabau Magali Alabau (Cienfuegos, 1945) nunca escribió poesía durante su vida en Cuba. Sus libros no han sido publicados en su país natal. Se dedicó al teatro durante su juventud y abondonó la isla en 1966. Su primer poemario, titulado Electra, Clitemnestra (1986), fue publicado a sus 41 años. A pesar de …
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