The New York City launching of Entre Islas: Poetas cubanas de Nueva York, by literary critics Elena M. Martínez and Francisco Soto. The authors have compiled an ambitious volume of essays, including their own, dedicated to the work of five Cuban poets from New York: Magali Alabau, Alina Galliano, Lourdes Gil, Maya Islas and Iraida Iturralde, delving into some of the themes recurrent in their poetry, including exile, loss, displacement and abandonment.
The essays also shed light on the eroticism, sensuality, and spirituality that are overtly manifest in these poets’ collective oeuvre, while delineating each writer’s individual search for literary and cultural genealogies.
As poets of the diaspora, their distinctive voices seem to be bound by a deep sense of identity and consciousness of the role of woman as protagonist.
The round table will be moderated by editors Elena M. Martínez and Francisco Soto, who will be joined by some of the other critics included in the volume, among them, Mabel Cuesta, Ana María Hernández, Oneida Sánchez, Sharina Maillo Pozo, Diana Alvarez-Amell, Octavio de la Suarée and Mary Ann Gosser.
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Image above: Gladys Triana, A Twisted Bottle (1997)
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