Ricardo Pau-Llosa reads a selection of his poems based on Japanese Edo period and contemporary art
Ricardo Pau-Llosa reads a selection of poems based on Japanese Edo period art (by Hokusai, Hiroshige, Tawaraya Sōtatsu and others) and contemporary art.
Ricardo 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 and Tampa before finally settling in Miami, where he has lived since 1968.
Ricardo’s first book of poetry, Sorting Metaphors (Anhinga Press, 1983), was awarded 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 University Press, 1993), was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His latest collections are Mastery Impulse (2003) and Parable Hunter (2008), Man (2013), The Turning (2018), (all from Carnegie Mellon University Press).
Intruder between Rivers/Intruso entre ríos (Del Centro Editores, 2019), 25 poems, original texts with facing-page translations into Spanish by Enrico Mario Santí, signed, numbered edition of 100.
In a previous DADE Reading 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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