THE LIBERAL STUDIES PROJECT

THE LIBERAL STUDIES PROJECT
INVITES YOU TO A TALK
“Portrait of Cuba
in Poetry and Music”
by Orlando González Esteva
Orlando González Esteva’s work has been celebrated by the
late Mexican poet Octavio Paz, winner of the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1990. “González Esteva’s poems immediately
impressed me for their inventiveness, their freshness, their
effrontery and rigor, ” wrote Paz. “They have been written
with grace but also with an explosive that blows all metaphors
into smithereens in full flight,” while standing as “proof that
the Spanish language still knows how to dance and sing.”
Orlando González Esteva was born in Cuba and has been living
in Miami since 1965, where he hosts the radio program “Cuba
Es Su Música.” He has published books of poems and essays
in the United States, Mexico and Spain, including: Mañas de la
poesía (1981), El pájaro tras la flecha (1988), Fosa común
(1996), Escrito para borrar (1997), La noche (2003), Elogio
del garabato (1994), Cuerpos en bandeja: Frutas y erotismo en
Cuba (1998), Mi vida con los delfines (1996), and Amigo enigma (2000). He has also published
two anthologies: Tallar en nubes (1999), a collection of notes taken from José Martí´s
“Notebooks,” and Concierto en La Habana, a collection of texts by writers inspired by the
island´s capital.
Thursday, November 20, 2003 at 5:30 PM
Speed Art Museum Auditorium
Free and Open to the Public
For more information please call 852-2247