Heroes Are Grazing In my Garden A Novel [Paperback]

A chilling account of the fate of intellectuals and artists in contemporary Cuba, Herberto Padilla's frankly autobioghraphical novel is the story of a writer who refuses to give over to the revolutionary state othe power of his art. In the process,Heroes Are Grazing In my Gardenpaints an astonishingly realistic portrait of an idealist movement gone sour, and the lives of the men and womern lost in the somber turn of the tide.Heberto Padilla (1932-2000) was a Cuban poet who served time in prison for criticizing the Cuban government. In addition toLegacies, his own selection of poems from throughout his career, Padilla also wrote the autobiographical novelHeroes Are Grazing In My Gardenand the memoirSelf-Portrait of the Other. He and his second wife, poet Belkis Cuza Male, divided their time between Princeton, New Jersey and Madrid, Spain.