Critically acclaimed Cuban poets Magali Alabau and Manuel Adrián López join forces to engage in a groundbreaking dramatic reading and literary dialogue revolving around their latest works: Alabau’s Ir y venir and López’s Los días de Ellwood.
Alabau‘s volume is a compilation of poems spanning thirty years (1986-2016), revealing a daily existential thread of angst and survival in a journey of memories where the poet bares her soul with naked authenticity:
“Las herramientas quedan
en la arena.
Clitemnestra y un hueco
es lo que ya queda.”
López‘s book reveals another type of angst. His is a journey not into the past, but into the present, where New York City comes to life through an avalanche of images filled with a vertiginous urban heartbeat that forces the poet to strip himself of all masks and, just as authentically as Alabau, embrace the vulnerability
of his own humanity:
“La dueña de las ventanas
es experta en miradas
habla con pájaros sobre ellos
es portadora de secretos…”
Moderated by award-winning poet and literary critic
Lourdes Gil.
THE NEW SCHOOL
63 5th Ave. (corner of 13th St.), NYC
The University Library Center
6th Floor: Room 610
SPACE IS LIMITED
Free Admission
RSVP at: info@cubanculturalcenter.org
This event will be held entirely in Spanish.
Manuel Adrián López was Born in Morón, Cuba, and has lived in New York City for several years. A winner of several literary awards, he has published extensively in Europe, Latin America and the US, most recently in the Canary Islands. Among his books are Temporada para suicidios (short fiction) and El arte de perder/The Art of Losing (poetry, in a bilingual format).
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