Only the Road / Solo el Camino: Eight Decades of Cuban by Margaret Randall

Featuring the paintings of greater than fifty poets writing around the final 8 many years, Only the line / Solo el Camino is the main whole bilingual anthology of Cuban poetry on hand to an English readership. it really is unique through its stylistic breadth and the range of its individuals, who come from all through Cuba and its diaspora and comprise luminaries, lesser-known voices, and a number of other Afro-Cuban and LGBTQ poets. approximately 1/2 the poets within the assortment are ladies. Only the Road paints a whole and dynamic photo of recent Cuban existence and poetry, highlighting their precise gains and idiosyncrasies, the adjustments throughout generations, and the ebbs and flows among repression and freedom following the Revolution. Poet Margaret Randall, who translated each one poem, contributes vast biographical notes for every poet and a ancient creation to twentieth-century Cuban poetry.