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Absolute Solitude

Selected Poems

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Pub Date May 03 2016 | Archive Date Mar 21 2016

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In the first comprehensive selection and translation of Dulce María Loynaz's poetry, James O'Connor invites us to hear the haunting voice of Cuba's celebrated poet, whom the Nobel Laureate Juan Ramón Jiménez terms in his Foreword, "archaic and new...tender, weightless, rich in abandon." Widely published in Spain during the 1950s, Loynaz's poetry was almost forgotten in Cuba after the Revolution. International recognition came to her late: at the age of ninety she was living in seclusion in Havana when the Royal Spanish Academy awarded her the 1992 Cervantes Prize, the highest literary accolade in the Spanish language. The first English publication of her work, Absolute Solitude contains a selection of poems from each of Loynaz's books, including the acclaimed prose poems from Poems with No Names, a selection of posthumously published work.

In the first comprehensive selection and translation of Dulce María Loynaz's poetry, James O'Connor invites us to hear the haunting voice of Cuba's celebrated poet, whom the Nobel Laureate Juan Ramón...


Advance Praise

"Poems Without Names are pure condensations of poetry, the pure bone of the affair: it is interior poetry, which is rare in women." --Gabriela Mistral


"...Reality glows from this incredibly human poetry; fresh letters, tender, weightless, rich with abandonment; feeling and mystical irony in its lined notebook paper like roses wrapped in the ordinary." --Juan Ramón Jiménez

"A cosmos of paradoxes, of encounters and failed encounters, of reality made into literature and literature seeped into reality." -Esperanza Lara Velázquez

"Dulce María Loynaz believes in the utility of her work and assumes the commitment of bestowing upon Cuban poets the important role that corresponds to them in the foundations of Modernism..." -Paco Tovar

"...That equilibrium between fortitude and tenderness -- the strong and the sensible -- never denies its feminine cast; just like it was never hidden in the life of Dulce María Loynaz." - César López

"Poems Without Names are pure condensations of poetry, the pure bone of the affair: it is interior poetry, which is rare in women." --Gabriela Mistral


"...Reality glows from this incredibly human...


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