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Section
II of Descant 134 Cuba, Inside/Out
(paper version, out now) is dedicated to the poets of Cuba, featuring
39 poems and an essay on the rich cultural heritage of the city of Matanzas.
Though
we would have preferred to present the translated poems beside their
Spanish originals, regretfully, constraints of space and budget prevented
us from doing so.We are therefore pleased to present 134+:
Los Originales, a special PDF supplement to Descant
134. This downloadable document presents the complete Section
II texts in the original Spanish. We are also able to include here the
work of two other Matanzas poets, Mabel Diez Ochoa, and Leymen Perez.
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In
this issue of Descant we are investigating
the meaning of Cuba today, both for those who live inside
it and those who contemplate it from the outside. And those
“outsiders” include those who once lived in Cuba
and are now in “exile”, and those whose families
emigrated from Cuba but who bear its history in their own
history, and all of us, we tourists, who take to Cuba as one
of those Platonic forms, sun, beach, booze, music, a numinous
floating idea where we escape aspects of our own fragile materiality.
– Karen Mulhallen |
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PREFACES
Karen Mulhallen Campo Santo
CUBA’S
WRITERS SPEAK
José Martí From shape to shape, and
from star to star I come
/ Two Fatherlands
Margarita Lozano Parilla Awaken
/ Without mirrors
Manuel de Jésus Velásquez León
Luxury
THE
POETS OF MATANZAS
Mabel Cuesta Matanzas: A city of poetic imaginings
and literary traditions: admitting it, a century later [prologue]
Digdora Alonso Staring at a flock of doves in the
afternoon sky
/ Butterfly’s eyes
/ Flood
Carilda Oliver Labra A woman writes this poem
/ When papá
/ Save time for me
José Manuel Espino City without a public
writer
Teresita Burgos Rituals
Isolina Bellas Before Arístedes
/ Royal palm
Israel Domínguez I’m forced to carry
a badge
/ Not all the grains of rice
Nayris Fernández Hernández Before
the page
/ My own supplicatory
/ Lone soul
Juan Luis Hernández Milián Body of
the other
/ Sketches of the shore
/ Heretics
Jacqueline Font The new ruins
/ Mirage
Yanira Marimón When fear is the pretext
of dreams
/ The poet who judges me
/ The incapacity of the lens
Marilín Roque Stones of the sea
/ I had a city and a lunatic
/ At my back, the city
Guadencio Rodriguez Santana Poems that speak of
cities
/ The photographs of the sister
/ The island of childhood
Laura Ruiz Montes San Vicente (as San Cristóbal)
/ you too be my guide by sea, earth and air
/ To come back before the seventh day (an excerpt)
/ Fatigue
Alfredo Zaldívar Speaking Mediaevally
/ In the middle of August
EDICIONES
VIGÍA
Laura Ruiz Montes Ediciones Vigía [Portfolio]
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Descant 134+ / Los Originales (PDF)