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Title: Poems from Cuba: Alone Against the Sea by Raúl Mesa, Raul Mesa, James Hoggard ISBN: 1-896761-12-7 Publisher: York Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1998 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $9.95

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Summary: An Overview of Raul Mesa's Poetics
Comment: Raul Mesa represents a literary generation that came of age in the last half of the 20th century. His poetry is introspective and recounts the struggles his generation has had to contend with in the face of dramatic social, economic and political changes in Cuba. For more than thirty years Mesa has been a professor of biology at the University of Havana. During this same period he also dedicated himself to writing poetry. In 1996 and 1998 he was a visiting lecturer at universities in Texas, Alabama, and North Carolina. His poetry has appeared in the "Graham House Review." He has one of the largest private libraries in Cuba. The title, "Alone Against the Sea," was suggested in a statement made by the late Cuban poet, Dulce Maria Loynaz (1902-1997). In "Un verano en Tenerife" (1958) she asserts that it is easier to provide water for the world's deserts than for its islands; they are alone against the sea. James Hoggard, the able translator of this volume, is himself a poet, as well as a novelist, essayist and playwright. In 1999 he was co-winner of the Soeurette Diehl Fraser Translation Award for his work on this volume. He holds the McMurtry Distinguished professorship of English at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas.