THE WHOLE ISLAND (entre los 10 mejores libros de poesía del año)

THE WHOLE ISLAND: SIX DECADES OF CUBAN POETRY

Edited by Mark Weiss

University of California Press
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“A whole island of poetry, indeed: reading this book, you discover a new world of poetry. What could be more exciting than that?”
Don Share
Senior Editor of Poetry Magazine.

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The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry, ha sido seleccionado por Harriet Blog (a blog from the Poetry Foundation) como uno de los diez (10) mejores libros de poesía del año 2009.
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Los otros libros premiados fueron:

• CHINESE APPLES, NEW AND SELECTED POEMS / W. S. Di Piero / Knopf
• CITY DOG: ESSAYS / W. S. Di Piero / Northwestern University Press
• MUSEUM OF ACCIDENTS / Rachel Zucker / Wave Books
• THE TREE THAT TIME BUILT / Mary Ann Hoberman, Linda Winston, and Barbara Fortin (Illustrator) / Sourcebooks, Naperville, Illinois
• “MENTAL EARS” / JH Prynne / Chicago Review 55:1
• CLAMPDOWN / Jennifer Moxley / Flood Editions
• THE BOOK OF MEN AND WOMEN / David Biespiel / University of Washington Press
• PURGATORY / Raúl Zurita (translated by Anna Deeny) / University of California Press
• EXILÉE AND TEMPS MORTS / Theresa Hak Kyung Cha / University of California Press