Author Description

"Virtually the only available English translations of the work of an important Cuban poet, prose writer, and critic awarded the Cervantes Prize in 1992. Loynaz's contribution to 20th-century literature awaits extensive translation and critical study. In the meantime, De Onís' careful, sensitive - if not consistently poetically successful - versions provide good introduction. See also comments by Ruth Behar and Pablo Armando Fernández in Bridges to Cuba (item #bi2001000699#)"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.