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Legacies is the author's own selection from his work, and represents the many facets of Padilla's art: his lyrical love poems, his almost Audenesque meditations on other poets, his deceptively simple verses about history.
This edition presents the English translations and original Spanish poems side by side on facing pages.
Heberto Padilla
Heberto Padilla (1932-2000) was a Cuban poet who served time in prison for criticizing the Castro regime. In addition to Legacies, his own selection of poems from throughout his career, Padilla also wrote the autobiographical novel Heroes Are Grazing In My Garden and the memoir Self-Portrait of the Other. He and his second wife, poet Belkis Cuza Male, divided their time between Princeton, New Jersey and Madrid, Spain.
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Alastair Reid
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Poet and translator Alastair Reid lives in New York City.
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