Recognized as one of the most influential Latin American writers of the twentieth century, Jos簿聶翻 Lezama Lima, born in Cuba in 1910, is associated with the Latin American neo-baroque and has
influenced several generations of writers in and out of Cuba, including such prominent poets as Severo Sarduy and N簿聶翻stor Perlongher. Lezama Lima's vision of America in a continental sense
stands at the fertile confluence of indigenous, African, and European influences. A crucial experimental writer, he has been known in English chiefly for his novel Paradiso, while little
of his poetry has been translated. This anthology is a comprehensive introduction to Lezama Lima's poetry. It presents for the first time in English a generous selection of his poems, as well
as an interview, essays, and critical work on his poetics. Ernesto Livon-Grosman has selected elegant and precise translations by James Irby, G.J. Racz, Nathaniel Tarn, and Roberto Tejada. His
insightful introduction places the poet in the wider context of Cuban and Latin American cultural history. Recognized as one of the most influential Latin American writers of the twentieth
century, Jos簿聶翻 Lezama Lima, born in Cuba in 1910, is associated with the Latin American neo-baroque and has influenced several generations of writers in and out of Cuba, including such
prominent poets as Severo Sarduy and N簿聶翻stor Perlongher. Lezama Lima's vision of America in a continental sense stands at the fertile confluence of indigenous, African, and European
influences. A crucial experimental writer, he has been known in English chiefly for his novel Paradiso, while little of his poetry has been translated. This anthology is a comprehensive
introduction to Lezama Lima's poetry. It presents for the first time in English a generous selection of his poems, as well as an interview, essays, and critical work on his poetics. Ernesto
Livon-Grosman has selected elegant and precise translations by James Irby, G.J. Racz, Nathaniel Tarn, and Roberto Tejada. His insightful introduction places the poet in the wider context of
Cuban and Latin American cultural history.
