Manuscript in Dreams - Study of Chopin (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781452810331)

Juana Rosa Pita (Havana, 1939) has authored her body of work between Washington, where she cofounded Ediciones Solar and received her doctorate in Hispanic Literature, Miami, New Orleans, where she was visiting professor at Tulane University, and Boston, where she now resides. Her poetry "possesses the original virtue of reviving emotion and transforming it into myth within herself" (Pablo Antonio Cuadra). Her poetry "always turns to reconciling human frailty with the mystery of things" (Pietro Civitareale). She has published 22 volumes, among them Las cartas y las horas (Washington, 1977); Manual de magia (Barcelona, 1979); Viajes de Pen駘ope (Miami, 1980), a bilingual edition (Udine, 2007); Plaza sitiada (Costa Rica, 1987); Sorbos de luz/ Sips of Light (New Orleans, 1990); Florencia nuestra (Miami, 1992); Una estaci en tren (Coral Gables, 1994, which won the poetry prize 'Letras de Oro' 1993; Tela de concierto (Miami, 1999); Cantar de isla (Havana, 2003); Pensamiento del tiempo (Miami, 2005); and the pamphlet "Nido de soles" (Boston, 2008). Juana Rosa Pita has been awarded two international prizes in Italy: the VIII Ultimo Novecento of Pisa - 'Poets in the World' (1985), and the II Alghero - 'Culture for Peace' (1987); both for her body of work. Her poetry has been widely studied, translated into several languages and included in anthologies such as New Directions in Prose and Poetry 49 (New York, 1985) in translation by Donald D. Walsh, and Poes僘 cubana del siglo XX (FCE: M騙ico, 2002).