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María Rodríguez
Born
July 4, 1952, in Havana.
Books:
La gente de mi barrio (1976; March 13 Prize)
Cuando una mujer no duerme (1980; Julián del Casal award)
Para un cordero blanco (1984; Casa de las Américas award)
En la arena de Padua (National Critics’ Prize, 1992)
Travelling (1995)
Páramos (Julián del Casal award for 1993; published
1995; National Critics’ Prize, 1995)
La foto del invernadero (1998; Casa de las Américas award)
Coger y dejar / Catch and Release (in final revisions as of
summer 2001)
In
addition to the prizes listed above, Rodríguez also won
Plural’s award for poetry (Mexico) in 1991, with poems
from En la arena de Padua. In 2001, Rodríguez and fellow
editor Antón Arrufat celebrated the release of their
magazine, Azoteas. An anthology of her work, in Spanish with
English translations by Kristin Dykstra and Nancy Gates-Madsen,
is forthcoming from Green Integer Press.
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Poems
1
"Info" -- title
taken from Infotur, as Rodríguez explains. From the unpublished
collection, Catch and Release.
[Audio]
2:
"Bosque negro," from the unpublished
collection, Catch and Release [Audio]
3 "La palabra jarra," from the unpublished
collection, Catch and Release [Audio]
4
"Laguna de los nenúfares," from
the unpublished collection, Catch and Release [Audio]
5
"Luz acuosa," from Páramos.
The Spanish version will appear in the anthology Violet Island
and Other Poems from Green Integer Press. A translation of "Luz
acuosa" by Kristin Dykstra and Nancy Gates Madsen will
appear in Violet Island and Other Poems, as well as in boundary
2: New Writing from the Americas 7. [Audio]
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