Looking Within/Mirar Adentro: Selected Poems/Poemas Escogidos, 1954-2000 (African American Life)

The African Cuban poet Nancy Morejón set out at a young age to explore the beauty and complexities of the life around and within her. Themes of social and political concern, loyalty, friendship and family, African identity, women's experiences, and hope for Cuba's future all found their way into her poems through bold metaphor and tender lyricism. This panoramic anthology, selected from ten volumes of Morejón's work and organized by theme, contains some poems that have already been acclaimed in several languages, others that are less known, and some never before published. Overall they present to Morejón's readership an enhanced, broader, and updated spectrum of her poetry in a Spanish-English edition.Although Morejón does not sympathize as much with intellectualized feminism as with "street" feminism (the kind that erupts with force as it confronts daily life), her poems illuminate issues in women's existence. Without intending to, she has revitalized contemporary Caribbean feminist literary discourse. One can find in her work the tensions between colonizer and colonized, dominator and dominated, and at the same time enjoy the sheer beauty of images depicting suffering, strength, and hope.

Looking Within/Mirar Adentro: Selected Poems/Poemas Escogidos, 1954-2000 (African American Life Series) (English, Spanish and Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Nancy Morejón

History & Criticism

Wayne State Univ Pr

These poems by Nancy Morejon are the voice of the new Cuba, the Cuba born after the Revolution. In her lines, Nancy Morejon captures the rhythms, the sounds, the colors, the people, that make up the rich and complex texture of Revolutionary Cuba.

Where the Island Sleeps Like a Wing: Selected Poetry

World Literature

The Black Scholar Press

Milton Rogovin traveled to Cuba twice in the mid-1980s to photograph those he calls “the forgotten ones.” He encountered renowned poet Nancy Morejon, who, upon seeing his images, decided to write new poems and select poems from her work that resonated with the photographs. The result is a spectacular collaboration between poet and artist that creates a multi-dimensional portrait of the landscape and people of a place that has been all but invisible to us since the embargo of Cuba more than 40 years ago. Translators Pamela Carmell and David Frye retain the voice and feel of the original poems.
Nancy Morejon is one of Cuba’s most important contemporary poets.
Milton Rogovin is a world-renowned documentary photographer with works in many major collections.

With Eyes and Soul: Images of Cuba (Secret Weavers Series) (Spanish Edition)

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

White Pine Press

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Books by Nancy Morejón