A collection of poetry for lovers of rhyme and formalist verse.

Penelope, who weaves and unravels while evoking and dreaming, is a clear symbol of the poet, who creating and erasing, recreating and correcting, finally reaches profound depths with the help of an interior dominant voice, or of a providence it's better not to name... The author's hand, visible here as in her other works, becomes particularly dazzling when we see her choosing to draw near words that are not usually contextual, the proximty of which surprises and fascinates. From these choices emerge the symbol-bearings of the work... In any language, the illuminating force and tenderness of her message won't be minor, and we will carry it inside as she carries her Ulysses, to nurture our own dreams and complete the missing half of our identity. Martha L. Canfield From the Preface to the Italian edition of Viajes de Penelope

A work of beautiful lyrical and musical accents written in Chopin's voice, Manuscript in Dreams/Study of Chopin, sheds light on highly meaningful moments and aspects of the composer's life and work. The author has knowledgeably threaded together "manuscripts that appeared to her in dreams..." an ensemble of intimate pieces subtly combined in an engaging kaleidoscope of memoir, narrative and poetry. A diversity of characters-George Sand, Clara Schumann, Heinrich Heine, Charles Halle, Eugene Delacroix...-parade through these pages and contribute to their remarkable immediacy, while a handful of poems offer a precise emotional counterpoint. As Lourdes Tomas says in her critical essay on the Spanish original, "In this splendid imaginary autobiography written by the Cuban born poet and writer Juana Rosa Pita, the poet of the piano is rendered as musician of words." The publication coincides with the bicentennial of Chopin's birth: an original, heartfelt homage to an unrivaled composer.