Released 30th June, 2024 // 176 pages // 978-1-916938-25-0 // RRP £14.99
Víctor Rodríguez Núñez’s prize-winning despegue / departure is a book about poetry, place, and belonging. Its rich, challenging, and subversive sonnets reveal the complexities and possibilities of Cuban contemporary poetry to a new English-language audience. Rodríguez Núñez speaks to a global generation of exiles and those whose hearts remain forever elsewhere, those who have found another home. despegue / departure is an original, inventive and unflinching examination of what it means to leave, to be left behind, and of our ability to stay.
ABOUT Víctor Rodríguez Núñez & Katherine M. Hedeen:
Víctor Rodríguez Núñez (Havana, 1955) is one of Cuba’s most outstanding and celebrated contemporary writers, with over eighty collections of his poetry published throughout the world. He has been the recipient of major awards in the Spanish-speaking region. His selected poems have been translated into over a dozen languages and he has read his poetry in over fifty countries. He divides his time between Gambier, Ohio, where he is Professor of Spanish at Kenyon College, and Havana, Cuba. www.victorrodrigueznunez.com
Katherine M. Hedeen is a prize-winning translator of poetry and an essayist. Her latest translations include collections by Juan Calzadilla, Antonio Gamoneda, Fina García Marruz, and Raúl Gómez Jattin. She is the co-editor, with Welsh poet Zoë Skoulding, of the groundbreaking transatlantic translation anthology, Poetry’s Geographies (Eulalia / Shearsman 2022). She is Managing Editor of Action Books. She resides in Ohio, where she is Professor of Spanish at Kenyon College, and Havana, Cuba. www.katherinemhedeen.com
