Erscheint: März 2027
Buch (Softcover): Belletristik
Security Questions
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New Directions Publishing Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35305505
EAN: 9780811241380
Erscheint: März 2027
Versand: Kostenlos
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Beschreibung
"It was through writing this book," Osdany Morales says, "that I realized I carried many memories in literary form-that exile had established a past I could already recount without waiting for old age. Exile and poetry made me look not exactly backward, but inward. " The poems from Security Questions. (originally published as El pasado es un pueblo solitario. ) are, on the one hand, a lyric sequence shaped by the poet's coming of age in small-town Cuba during the late stages of Fidel Castro's regime, and on the other a testament of exile and immigration, traces that remain in the wake of forsaking a homeland for the uncertainties of a new place. Each poem in this playful and trenchant collection unfolds as a reply to its title, and each title is a question in English that echoes actual online prompts for newly arrived immigrants to establish official identity and security in the United States. With a mix of humor, irony, and sincerity vividly captured by the translator Harry Bauld, Morales transforms these absurd and interrogative bureaucratic authentication questions into the radiant poetry of a new "American" persona.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Osdany Morales
- Harry Bauld
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2027
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 112