{"product_id":"in-the-vortex-of-the-cyclone-selected-poems","title":"In the Vortex of the Cyclone: Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first-ever bilingual anthology by the Afro-Cuban poet Excilia Saldana contains a wide-ranging selection of her work, from lullabies to an erotic letter, from lengthy autobiographical poems to quiet reflections on her Caribbean island as the inspiration for her writing. She celebrates her African ancestry with poems that are filled with the flora and fauna of Afro-Cuban rituals. She explores her feminine rites of passage in the context of her country's momentous journey. In these poems, Saldana weaves the personal, the mythical, and the literary, bringing together the domestic with the transcendental, the temporal with the eternal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKnown in Cuba as a poet, essayist, translator, and professor, Saldana won the prestigious Nicholas Guillen Award for Distinction in Poetry in 1998 and the La Rosa Blanca Prize for \u003ci\u003eLa Noche\u003c\/i\u003e, a children's book, in 1989. Before her death in 1999, most of her work had appeared in Spanish exclusively in Cuba with only scattered translations. This collection emphasizes her construction of a personal and poetic autobiography to reveal the identity of one of the best Afro-Caribbean poets of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Excilia Saldaña\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Florida\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/30\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813064291\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFlora González Mandri\u003c\/b\u003e, professor emerita of writing, literature, and publishing at Emerson College, is the author of \u003ci\u003eGuarding Cultural Memory: Afro-Cuban Women in Literature and the Arts\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJosé Donoso's House of Fiction: A Dramatic Construction of Time and Place\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eRosamond Rosenmeier\u003c\/b\u003e (1928-2011) was professor emerita at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and was the author of \u003ci\u003eWhere Light Answers Light: Poems from Prince Edward Island\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Florida","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":53323826102570,"sku":"9780813064291","price":33.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1022\/4553\/1946\/files\/img_ce2b6fd4-70c7-4d11-9d15-c83704366f51.jpg?v=1793058337","url":"https:\/\/delvanta.shop\/products\/in-the-vortex-of-the-cyclone-selected-poems","provider":"Whitmore Lane","version":"1.0","type":"link"}