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Virgil Suarez
Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Virgil Suarez’s latest short story collection, his first in more than two decades, is subversive and emotionally piercing. A man whose yard is plagued by armadillos, a…
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Virgil Suarez speaks with intimacy and urgency of a life lived as an outsider, a life filled with dislocation and alienation born of exile. He writes with great pathos and…
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In this memoir, accomplished author Virgil Suarez draws his memories of his family and friends leaving Cuba and ties these through verse and prose to his experience of exile. He…
Shimmering with saturated color and heat, this title features a sequence of memory poems about growing up in the tropics, threaded through the myth of Caliban from Shakespeare’s The Tempest…
Hibiscus, banyan trees, and royal palms. Mango jam, white slices of sugarcane, and oxtail stew. Childhood games with fireflies and snail shells. These are images of a Cuba that many…
In creating this collection Suarez creatively combines poems from six previous collections with unpublished ones to give compelling expression of what it means to live in exile.
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Poems That Explore Fatherhood, Parenting, and Separation Anxiety, and the Ways in Which Time and Memory are Both a Prison and a Giver of Joy.
Victor Hernandez Cruz
Readers should be prepared for weeping, laughing, and awe. -Harvard Review
Diaspora constitutes a powerful descriptor for the modern condition of the contemporary poet, the spokesperson for the psyche of America. The poems in this collection focus on the struggles and…
