Other Letters to Milena / Otras Cartas a Milena - Rodríguez, Reina María
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This is a translation of a mixed genre work by Cuban poet Reina María Rodríguez in which poetry merges into creative non-fiction, culminating in a series of essays. Other Letters to Milena shows Rodríguez confronting pressing issues at the turn of the twenty first century. These include a new post-Soviet world and the realities of diasporic existence, which have a profound effect even on people like Rodríguez who have not migrated.

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This is a translation of a mixed genre work by Cuban poet Reina María Rodríguez in which poetry merges into creative non-fiction, culminating in a series of essays. Other Letters to Milena shows Rodríguez confronting pressing issues at the turn of the twenty first century. These include a new post-Soviet world and the realities of diasporic existence, which have a profound effect even on people like Rodríguez who have not migrated.
Autorenporträt
Born in Cuba in 1952, Reina María Rodríguez is the author of more than thirty books of poetry and prose, including Las fotos de la Señora Loss, La detención del tiempo/Time's Arrest (bilingual edition), Bosque negro, and Violet Island and Other Poems (bilingual anthology). She is a two-time winner of the prestigious Casa de las Américas prize for poetry, having also received multiple Julián del Casal and National Critics' Awards. She was awarded the Italo Calvino award for her first novel. In 1999 Rodríguez was named a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters in France. In 2013 she won Cuba's National Literature Prize and in 2014 won the Pablo Neruda Ibero-American Poetry Award. Kristin Dykstra translated Reina María Rodríguez's La detención del tiempo/Time's Arrest and co-translated Rodríguez's Violet Island and Other Poems. She also translated two books by Omar Pérez, and her translations of complete poetry collections by Juan Carlos Flores and Angel Escobar are forthcoming from the University of Alabama Press. Dykstra was the recipient of the 2012 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship.