Ninety miles separate Cuba and Key West, Florida. Crossing that
distance, thousands of Cubans have lost their lives. For Cuban
American poet Virgil Su\u00e1rez, that expanse of ocean represents
the state of exile, which he has imaginatively bridged in over two
decades of compelling poetry. \u0022Whatever isn't voiced in time
drowns,\u0022 Su\u00e1rez writes in \u0022River Fable,\u0022 and
the urgency to articulate the complex yearnings of the displaced
marks all the poems collected here. 90 Miles contains the best work
from Su\u00e1rez's six previous collections: You Come Singing,
Garabato, In the Republic of Longing, Palm Crows, Banyan, and Guide
to the Blue Tongue, as well as important new poems. At once
meditative, confessional, and political, Su\u00e1rez's work
displays the refracted nature of a life of exile spent in Cuba,
Spain, and the United States. Connected through memory and desire,
Caribbean palms wave over American junk mail. Cuban mangos rot on
Miami hospital trays. William Shakespeare visits Havana. And the
ones who left Cuba plant trees of reconciliation with the ones who
stayed. Courageously prolific, Virgil Su\u00e1rez is one of the
most important Latino writers of his generation.
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