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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
A Little Body Are Many Parts: Un Cuerpecito Son Muchas Partes

A Little Body Are Many Parts: Un Cuerpecito Son Muchas Partes

Iglesias, Legna Rodríguez
Parry, Abigail
Vick, Serafina

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General Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.95

ISBN10: 1780374968
ISBN13: 9781780374963
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Published: Oct 24 2019
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Legna Rodríguez Iglesias has quickly become one of the most celebrated Cuban poets writing today. Her intense - often confrontational - poetry refuses to conform, subverting expectations and challenging social mores. Particularly arresting is her uncomfortable focus on the human body, which she dramatises in isolation, stripping it of context, making it strange and even obscene. Alongside poems of extreme descriptive vigour, Rodríguez Iglesias irreverently skewers the hypocrisies, clichés and hierarchies of our time. This selection offers a broad survey of Rodríguez Iglesias's work, drawing on eight previous collections in Spanish. Throughout, the poems are inflected with Cuban history and explore the tensions between the generation of the Revolution and her own. The consequences of poet's long-term residence in Miami are forcefully brought home through poems of emigration and estrangement. The playfulness and verbal dexterity that marks Rodríguez Iglesias's work in Spanish has been expertly brought to life in English by Abigail Parry, an award-winning poet whose debut collection Jinx was published by Bloodaxe in 2018, working in collaboration with bridge-translator and writer Serafina Vick. This is her second Spanish-English dual language edition, following Miami Century Fox (Akashic, 2017), winner of the 2016 National Poetry Series Paz Prize for Poetry.

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