The work of Cuban poet Gaston Baquero has been largely unavailable.
Now, thanks to translators Greg Simon and Steven White, we have a
rich sampling that will provide English speakers a powerful display
of Baquero's high-velocity lyricism. Playful, sinuous with both
gladness and duende, these poems speak profoundly of the spirit's
essential freedom and mystery, and of what it meant to be human in
the twentieth century. Born in Banes, Cuba, in 1918, Gaston Baquero
was raised in rural poverty and trained as an agronomist before
becoming a journalist. He was involved in all the most important
Cuban literary journals of the mid-century, including Origenes. He
left Cuba immediately after the revolution of 1959, spending the
rest of his life in Spain, where he died in 1997. Baquero published
numerous essays and eight collections of poetry. Although
officially nonexistent in Cuba for many years, his work is widely
known there, and he was recently officially acknowledged as one of
the country's major poets.
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