Other Letters to Milena

Informationen zum Autor Born in Cuba in 1952, Reina María Rodríguez is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose, including Las fotos de la Señora Loss, La detención del tiempo/Time’s Arrest (bilingual edition), Bosque negro, and Violet Island and Other Poems (bilingual anthology). She is a twotime winner of the prestigious Casa de las Américas prize for poetry, having also received multiple Julián del Casal and National Critics’ Awards. She was awarded the Italo Calvino award for her first novel. In 1999 Rodríguez was named a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters in France. Kristin Dykstra translated Reina María Rodríguez’s La detención del tiempo/Time’s Arrest and cotranslated Rodríguez’s Violet Island and Other Poems. She was the recipient of the 2012 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship. Klappentext This is a translation of a mixed genre work by Cuban poet Reina María Rodríguez in which poetry merges into creative non-fiction, culminating in a series of essays. Other Letters to Milena shows Rodríguez confronting pressing issues at the turn of the twenty first century. These include a new post-Soviet world and the realities of diasporic existence, which have a profound effect even on people like Rodríguez who have not migrated. Zusammenfassung Other Letters to Milena/Otras cartas a Milena offers a parallel translation of a mixed-genre work by acclaimed Cuban writer Reina Maria Rodriguez in which poetry merges into creative nonfiction! culminating in a series of essays.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Reina Maraia Rodraiguez, Reina M. Rodriguez, Reina Mar Rodriguez, Reina Maria Rodriguez, Reina Maria/ Dykstra Rodriguez, Reina María Rodríguez
• Mitarbeit: Kristin Dykstra (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: The University of Alabama Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.06.2014
• EAN: 9780817358013
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5801-3
• Seiten: 88
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft