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Marcelo Morales's The World as Presence/El mundo como ser
showcases, for the first time in English, a challenging, bold, and
vivid new voice in Cuban literature. Marcelo Morales was born in
Cuba in 1977. He is an established, prize-winning writer, yet he is
younger in comparison to most of the Cuban poets known
internationally, many of whom were born prior to the 1959
revolution. While older generations of Cuban poets have wrestled in
their work with social and political critique, those critiques have
often been articulated through formal experimentation and
abstraction, unsurprising given the censorship and the real threats
of punishment that dissident writers have faced. Morales, however,
directly interrogates both the Cuban past and present. References
to many significant moments, people, and issues in Cuban history
and culture can be found throughout his work. Along with references
to the activist group "The White Ladies," the 1976 bombing of Cuban
Airlines Flight 455, and the military aid that Cubans provided to
Angola during its fight for independence, Morales's poetry follows
a timeline ranging from Marti to Guevara to the day of the 2014
announcement by Obama and Castro that diplomatic relations between
the two nations would finally be restored. As Cuba experiences a
series of historically remarkable transitions, Morales emerges from
this context to offer an incisive poetic account of this critical
moment in Cuban, as well as world, history. The World as
Presence/El mundo como ser is both the debut of this work in any
language and the first English translation of a complete Morales
collection. Given the bilingual format, this book will be of
interest both to English and Spanish readers.
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