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Whether his subject is the lies and brutality of tyrants, the pain of exile, or the beauties and risks of love, Padilla's vision shows the steadiness and resilience born of suffering. Lepkowski, Oakland Univ., Rochester, Mich.Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. Padilla's short, incisive lyrics possess a certain grave decorum in which an Aesopean tende

• Title : A Fountain, a House of Stone: Poems
• Author : Heberto Padilla
• Rating : 4.89 (711 Vote)
• Publish : 2015-4-2
• Format : Paperback
• Pages : 128 Pages
• Asin : 0374523649
• Language : English

Whether his subject is the lies and brutality of tyrants, the pain of exile, or the beauties and risks of love, Padilla's vision shows the steadiness and resilience born of suffering. Lepkowski, Oakland Univ., Rochester, Mich.Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. Padilla's short, incisive lyrics possess a certain grave decorum in which an Aesopean tendency to tell dangerous truths in code--often seen in authors living under totalitarian regimes--counterbalances a wild surrealistic streak. From Library Journal This collection is the first in nearly a decade by a major Cuban poet and exile, whose most recent publication was Self-Portrait of the Other ( LJ 12/89), his memoir of life under Castro. . For all collections of contemporary Latin American litera

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. 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. These poems give fierce and stirring testimony to a poet finding a new being in the recreation of a lost world.. 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

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