90 Miles: Selected and New Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780822958802)

Ninety miles separate Cuba and Key West, Florida. Crossing that distance, thousands of Cubans have lost their lives. For Cuban American poet Virgil Su\u00e1rez, that expanse of ocean represents the state of exile, which he has imaginatively bridged in over two decades of compelling poetry. \u0022Whatever isn't voiced in time drowns, \u0022 Su\u00e1rez writes in \u0022River Fable, \u0022 and the urgency to articulate the complex yearnings of the displaced marks all the poems collected here. 90 Miles contains the best work from Su\u00e1rez's six previous collections: You Come Singing, Garabato, In the Republic of Longing, Palm Crows, Banyan, and Guide to the Blue Tongue, as well as important new poems. At once meditative, confessional, and political, Su\u00e1rez's work displays the refracted nature of a life of exile spent in Cuba, Spain, and the United States. Connected through memory and desire, Caribbean palms wave over American junk mail. Cuban mangos rot on Miami hospital trays. William Shakespeare visits Havana. And the ones who left Cuba plant trees of reconciliation with the ones who stayed. Courageously prolific, Virgil Su\u00e1rez is one of the most important Latino writers of his generation.

Author: Virgil Suarez
ISBN-10: 0822958805
ISBN-13: 9780822958802
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Language: English
Published: 03/23/2005
Pages: 127
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.45d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 06/15/2005 pg. 75
Foreword 09/01/2005 pg. 53
Foreword 08/19/2009