Product Description: Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies.

A bilingual collection of surrealistic poems with English translations reflects García Lorca's response to the vitality, beauty, violence, poverty, and social turbulence of New York City during a prolonged visit in 1930. Reprint.

Laid out by a massive stroke, Amado Terra, a former Cuban cigar-factory worker, recalls the wonderful joy and exquisite pain he has experienced during his life, rememebering old Havana in all of its pre-Castro splendor. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.

Amadeo Terra, former cigar-factory worker, is confined in a Florida hospital after a stroke has left him paralyzed. His body no longer works, but his mind is very much alive, as is his ruthless and audacious wit. His only human contact is with the callous nurse who constantly scolds him, the orderly who barely acknowledges him, and the nun who prays for Amadeo's salvation while he fantasizes about what's beneath her habit. One day Nurse feeds him mango from a baby-food jar, a departure from the usual bland mush, and the taste of it on his tongue brings memories flooding back of his life in Havana. Once a master cigar roller in Cuba and an imperious patriarch of enormous appetites, Amadeo now confronts the long-buried facts of his previously unexamined life. The Cigar Roller is a hypnotic portrayal of a man compelled to relive his worst failures in order to conjure his fairest memories.

Product Description: Cuban-born New York poet Pablo Medina's bilingual fulcros are six-line poems that, as he writes, “combine the dialectic of the sonnet with the imagistic power of the haiku… shaping language and silence into a point of balance floating in the ocean of time...read more

Chronicles the life of Felicia Turner and the men in her family, forced to escape from a Caribbean island because of political turmoil and trying to cope with life in the North

Sent to America from his native Caribbean island nation of Barata as a young boy, Felix Nogara wanders from place to place, unable to assimilate, until the dictator who had ruled Barata dies and Felix returns home to find his mother and to reclaim the culture and history of his native land.

Product Description: This masterful blend of Latin sensibilities with English-language poetry resonates with our rich, multicultural heritage. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: poetry, by Cuban-American poet/essayist/editor