Ricardo Pau-Llosa reads a selection of poems from his books The Turning, Man, Parable Hunter
Ricardo Ricardo Pau-Llosa is a poet and art critic whose life's work has centered on Cuba and Latin American art. When his family fled Cuba in 1960, he ended up in Chicago, spending years there before heading south to Miami.
From Ricardo's own website bio: "His first book of poetry, Sorting Metaphors (Anhinga Press, 1983), won the first national Anhinga Prize. He published a second book of poetry in Bread of the Imagined (Bilingual Press, 1992). His third book of poems, Cuba (Carnegie Mellon U Press, 1993), was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His latest collections are Mastery Impulse (2003) and Parable Hunter (2008), both from Carnegie Mellon."
In this video, Ricardo reads a selection of poems from his books The Turning, Man, and Parable Hunter. Most are based on works by artists like Wilson Bigaud, Mario Carreño, Stanley Spencer, El Greco, Titian, Johannes Vermeer, Rembrandt and Pieter Bruegel.
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