{"product_id":"90-miles-selected-and-new-poems-9780822958802","title":"90 Miles: Selected and New Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eNinety miles separate Cuba and Key West, Florida. Crossing that distance, thousands of Cubans have lost their lives. For Cuban American poet Virgil Suárez, that expanse of ocean represents the state of exile, which he has imaginatively bridged in over two decades of compelling poetry. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Whatever isn't voiced in time drowns,\" Suárez writes in \"River Fable,\" and the urgency to articulate the complex yearnings of the displaced marks all the poems collected here. \u003ci\u003e90 Miles\u003c\/i\u003e contains the best work from Suárez's six previous collections: \u003ci\u003eYou Come Singing, Garabato, In the Republic of Longing, Palm Crows, Banyan\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGuide to the Blue Tongue\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as important new poems. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once meditative, confessional, and political, Suárez's work displays the refracted nature of a life of exile spent in Cuba, Spain, and the United States. Connected through memory and desire, Caribbean palms wave over American junk mail. Cuban mangos rot on Miami hospital trays. William Shakespeare visits Havana. And the ones who left Cuba plant trees of reconciliation with the ones who stayed. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCourageously prolific, Virgil Suárez is one of the most important Latino writers of his generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Virgil Suarez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/23\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 127\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.45d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822958802\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/15\/2005 pg. 75\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2005 pg. 53\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/19\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVirgil Suárez\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1962. Since 1974 he has lived in the United States. In addition to his six previous collections of poetry, he is the author of four novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Cutter, Latin Jazz, Havana Thursdays\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGoing Under\u003c\/i\u003e, and of the collections of stories \u003ci\u003eWelcome to the Oasis and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. Two memoirs, \u003ci\u003eSpared Angola: Memories from a Cuban-American Childhood\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eInfinite Refuge\u003c\/i\u003e, chronicle his life of exile. He has edited many successful anthologies, including \u003ci\u003eIguana Dreams: New Latino Fiction; Little Havana Blues: A Cuban-American Literature Anthology; American Diaspora: Poetry of Displacement; Like Thunder: Poets Respond to Violence in America\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eVespers: Contemporary American Poems of Religion and Spirituality\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Florida.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":41261996638323,"sku":"9.78082E+12","price":21.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_48f9f8f2-cc39-462b-8de2-cab3f3e78219.jpg?v=1705502657","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/90-miles-selected-and-new-poems-9780822958802","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}