The Foreigner's Song: New and Selected Poems - Pablo Medina
The Foreigner's Song exhibits the best work of a master who has for more than forty years been writing poems whose lyrical delicacy belies a tensile intellectual and imaginative strength. Often characterized as a poet of exile, his capacity to transform the poetry of diverse cultures and languages into a single original voice of personal and intimate revelation is unmatched. His images are deep and true, his signature unmistakable, whether he is writing about New Jersey or the Caribbean. No poet, not even Neruda, makes temporal and metaphorical leaps seem so effortless. And he always does more than one thing. He is a poet of both style and substance, a poet of Eros, but also the poet of food, chopped liver and tuna fish, of the memorable phrase, and the striking revelation. Pablo Medina is a poet I need. He lays it all on the table, the strangeness with the beauty, and never a doubt what he means.
-Rodney Jones, author of Village Prodigies
ISBN 97817329012782021$18.95
Cuban-born PABLO MEDINA is the author of 19 books, most recently the novel The Cuban Comedy and the poetry collection Soledades (poems in Spanish). His critically acclaimed translations include García Lorca's Poet in New York (with Mark Statman) and Alejo Carpentier's seminal novel The Kingdom of This World. Medina’s work has appeared in various languages and in magazines and periodicals throughout the world. Winner of many awards for his work, including fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation, Medina lives in Williamsville, Vermont, and is on faculty at the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.
