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The World as Presence/El Mundo Como Ser
Marcelo Morales
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Description for The World as Presence/El Mundo Como Ser
Paperback. Marcelo Morales' The World as Presence / El mundo como ser showcases, for the first time in English, a challenging, bold, and vivid new voice in Cuban literature. Morales directly interrogates both the Cuban past and present. References to many significant moments, people, and issues in Cuban history and culture can be found throughout his work. Translator(s): Dykstra, Kristin. Num Pages: 162 pages, 1 B&W figure. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 2AB; 2ADS; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 249.
Marcelo Morales’s The World as Presence/El mundo como ser showcases, for the first time in English, a challenging, bold, and vivid new voice in Cuban literature.
Marcelo Morales was born in Cuba in 1977. He is an established, prize-winning writer, yet he is younger in comparison to most of the Cuban poets known internationally, many of whom were born prior to the 1959 revolution. While older generations of Cuban poets have wrestled in their work with social and political critique, those critiques have often been articulated through formal experimentation and abstraction, unsurprising given the censorship and the ... Read more
Marcelo Morales’s The World as Presence/El mundo como ser showcases, for the first time in English, a challenging, bold, and vivid new voice in Cuban literature.
Marcelo Morales was born in Cuba in 1977. He is an established, prize-winning writer, yet he is younger in comparison to most of the Cuban poets known internationally, many of whom were born prior to the 1959 revolution. While older generations of Cuban poets have wrestled in their work with social and political critique, those critiques have often been articulated through formal experimentation and abstraction, unsurprising given the censorship and the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
162
Condition
New
Number of Pages
162
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817358846
SKU
V9780817358846
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About Marcelo Morales
Marcelo Morales is the author of the poetry collections Cinema (winner of the 1997 Pinos Nuevos Prize), El círculo mágico, and Materia (winner of the 2008 Julián del Casal Prize), among others. His novel La espiral appeared in 2006. Kristin Dykstra, recipient of the 2012 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship, translated Reina María Rodríguez’s Other ... Read more
Reviews for The World as Presence/El Mundo Como Ser
“Through Kristin Dykstra’s superb translation of The World as Presence/El mundo como ser, we see Marcelo Morales’s never-ending need to articulate, to question, and to be awed by what is important to him as intellectual, as citizen, as family member, and poet. While his concerns are often political, philosophical, and global, they are at the same time intricately and inseparably ... Read more