Cubanology [Paperback]

In 2002, while temporarily living in Europe (mostly Amsterdam), the poet Omar P?rez began writing in a notebook. His journey began as a short professional visit that shifted into something less defined after he fell in love. Eventually the notebook becameCubanology, a book of days reflecting on three years of life at a remove from the island: A memory of a flight, a journey, jour. Along with registering common and uncommon vicissitudes of everyday life, the result presents a fusion of languages. Simultaneously national and polycultural,Cubanologystreams poetic thought and experience, excerpts from other writings in progress, and the coalescence of a new islandic consciousness  scenes reminiscent of many-minded Odysseus, if home were heart. Visual material appearing throughoutCubanologyblends P?rezs sketches with photographs from that period, as well as art he made after returning to his family home on Havanas iconic Mal?con.

In 2002, while temporarily living in Europe (mostly Amsterdam), the poet Omar P?rez began writing in a notebook. His journey began as a short professional visit that shifted into something less defined after he fell in love. Eventually the notebook becameCubanology, a book of days reflecting on three years of life at a remove from the island: A memory of a flight, a journey, jour.

Omar Pérez’s books includeLingua Franca(2010);Oíste hablar del gato de pelea?(1999, translated asDid You Hear about the Fighting Cat?by Kristin Dykstra, 2010); andAlgo de lo Sagrado(1996, translated asSomething of the Sacredby Kristin Dykstra and Robert Tejada, 2007). His translations include Italian-Cuban novelist Alba de Céspedes’sNadie vuelve atrás(2003); and Shakespeare’sAs You Like It(asComo Les Guste, 2000). He received Cuba’s Nicolás Guillén Prize for Poetry forCrítica de la Rl“€