Fleeing Actium /
Ricardo Pau-Llosa was born in Havana, Cuba in 1954. In 1960, his family fled the communist takeover and arrived in Chicago. In 1968, by way of Tampa, they moved to Miami. His first collection of poems, Sorting Metaphors, was selected by William Stafford for the Anhinga Prize in 1983. This was follow...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Pittsburgh :
Carnegie Mellon University Press,
[2023].
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| Series: | Carnegie Mellon University Press poetry series.
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| Summary: | Ricardo Pau-Llosa was born in Havana, Cuba in 1954. In 1960, his family fled the communist takeover and arrived in Chicago. In 1968, by way of Tampa, they moved to Miami. His first collection of poems, Sorting Metaphors, was selected by William Stafford for the Anhinga Prize in 1983. This was followed by Bread of the Imagined from Bilingual Press in 1992, and Cuba, the 100th title in the Carnegie Mellon University Press Poetry Series, in 1993, the first of seven of Pau-Llosa's collections from Carnegie Mellon. Additionally, he is a noted international authority on Latin American art. |
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| Physical Description: | 142 pages ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780887486944 0887486940 |