Tokonoma was first published in Spain in 2011. This edition offers only the English-language translation by Peter Boyle; a fully bilingual edition is published simultaneously with this book for those who need the original text. "Jose Kozer is the name of one of contemporary Latin American literature's most consistent and innovative poets, the name at once of a body of work and a particular line of approach." (Adolfo Castanon)

Tokonoma was first published in Spain in 2011. This bilingual edition appears simultaneously with an English-only edition for those who do not need the original text. "Jose Kozer is the name of one of contemporary Latin American literature's most consistent and innovative poets, the name at once of a body of work and a particular line of approach.

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Spanish by Peter Boyle. "A sixty-year-old man writes a poem and entitles it 'Anima.' Days later he writes another poem with a tone similar to the first, entitles it 'Anima', then realizes he has just begun a series which must all bear the same title. Furthermore, the man decides that in the future and till the day of his death he is going to continue writing poems that, since they have this tone, will bear the title 'Anima.' At the end of a year, having written some 150 poems, he extracts from the accumulated mass 60 poems called 'Anima'"--Jose Kozer.

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Mark Weiss. "The poetry of Kozer, in this beautifully selected & translated edition, moves from a particular person & place (Cuban, Jewish, caught between home & exile) into a tangle of locations & perceptions that gives his poetry a nearly epic status. While the work has an avant-garde ("neobaroque") foundation--& it does--it's the humanity of the writing (passionate & comic by turns & always precisely referential) that predicts its lasting greatness. A resident of America & of the world, Jose Kozer is a poet who works at full throttle, gives us thereby what poetry has never done before & what it has always done"--Jerome Rothenberg. Jose Kozer came to the United States from his native Havana as a twenty year old in 1960. Since then he has become recognized throughout the Spanish-speaking world as the foremost Cuban poet of his generation and one of Latin America's most influential poets. STET is his first major bilingual publication.