"A Fountain, a House of Stone" is a bilingual collection of poems by Cuba's foremost living poet, Herbert Padilla, who now lives in exile in the United States. Padilla's poems constitute a subtle but powerful poetry of domesticity in exile, in which his characteristically questioning, critical poetics have been not so much abandoned as subsumed. His lyricism here finds its inspiration largely in the quotidian, but the same meditative lyric intelligence infuses his homages to a host of poetic muses--to Jose Lezama Lima, ...
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"A Fountain, a House of Stone" is a bilingual collection of poems by Cuba's foremost living poet, Herbert Padilla, who now lives in exile in the United States. Padilla's poems constitute a subtle but powerful poetry of domesticity in exile, in which his characteristically questioning, critical poetics have been not so much abandoned as subsumed. His lyricism here finds its inspiration largely in the quotidian, but the same meditative lyric intelligence infuses his homages to a host of poetic muses--to Jose Lezama Lima, Octavio Paz, Heinrich Heine, Luis Cernuda, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Wallace Stevens, among others. These poems give fierce and stirring testimony to a poet finding a new being in the recreation of a lost world.
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Fair. Obviously well-worn, but no text pages missing. May have highlighting and marginalia, but markings do not interfere with readability. Textbooks do not have accompanying CDs or access codes. Ships from an indie bookstore in NYC. Text in Spanish, English. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 109 p.
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Fine in Fine jacket. First edition. Translated by Alistair Reid and Alexander Coleman. Parallel Spanish and English text. Just a couple of light foxed spots on the topedge else fine in fine dust jacket. Review copy with material laid in. Poetry.
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