| Palm Crows Contributor(s): Suárez, Virgil (Author) |
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ISBN: 0816520992 ISBN-13: 9780816520992 Publisher: University of Arizona Press OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - Hispanic American |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 00012204 |
| Series: Camino del Sol: A Latina and Latino Literary (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.22" H x 6.17" W x 9.04" (0.40 lbs) 89 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic - Ethnic Orientation - Latino |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Hibiscus, banyan trees, and royal palms. Mango jam, white slices of sugarcane, and oxtail stew. Childhood games with fireflies and snail shells. These are images of a Cuba that many remember and others have never known, captured here in the powerful poems of Virgil Su rez. Born in Havana in the wake of the Cuban Revolution, Su rez is now one of more than a million Cubans living in the United States. In Palm Crows Su rez offers a compelling canci n of loss, longing, and memory as he explores the meaning of exile. In poems that range from playful and fantastic to elegiac and meditative, he writes about "the in-betweenness of spirit" of those who have left their home and must try to forge a new one in the United States. Palm Crows shows us an almost mythical Cuba, offering a compelling testament both to the immigrant experience and to our own search for home. |