Ricardo Pau-Llosa

Man is premised on the fact that most individuals in our culture have, over the last two generations especially, drifted beyond rebellion or rejection of spiritual matters into a purely worldly menu of causes to explain what occurs to them. Nonetheless, the spiritual--in a universal sense although here it is referenced by the Judeo-Christian tradition--retains, strangely, its capacity to condition and inform our sense of the man-character's life.

An intricate collection of poems that represent the major themes of Pau-Llosa's career. Fleeing Actium is Ricardo Pau-Llosa's ninth book of poetry, and it presents an expansive collection that showcases the culmination of major themes in the poet's work. Now 68 and splitting his time between Miami and Key Largo, Pau-Llosa's lifelong passion for the visual arts--as a collector, curator, and critic--has fueled his interest in ekphrastic poetry. The opening section of the collection gathers Pau-Llosa's best poems in this genre, followed by a section devoted to Japan's legendary Edo-period prints and paintings. The third section engages with belief systems across cultures and eras and the personae which embody them, often in dialogue with each other. A fourth and final section focuses on Pau-Llosa's equally venerable interest in Husserlian Phenomenology and the vivid apprehension of everyday objects. Spending much of his time in Key Largo, Pau-Llosa has been inspired to create poems that juxtapose ancient and contemporary scenes of everyday life, another avenue of Pau-Llosa's enduring explorations of philosophical concepts in his poetry. The many complex references and themes in Fleeing Actium converge in a lucid, vital chorus of Ideas about history, memory, inspiration, and the roles which only art and poetry can play in the reflective life.

Pau-Llosa's poetry makes intellectual demands from his reader, not so much aiming at abstractions as to make the concrete forms of poetic language intelligible. He honors his reader by not making concessions, all the while casting spells with an inventive prosody. In this, Pau-Llosa's best work yet, one finds an evident joy in the craft of verse, masterful language put at the service of sustained reflections on the world's, and life's, wonders.

CONTENIDO: Aurelio de la Vega y la Imaginaci n cubana / Ricardo Pau-Llosa Jos Mart y la naturaleza; estrato fundamental de su pensamiento / Manuel G mez Reinoso An lisis de cuatro conos de la ensay stica de Mart que perfilan su visi n pol tico-social / Elio Alba Buffil Poemas reveladores / ngel Cuadra Landrove Walt Whitman y Jos Mart / Amelia Del Castillo Mart n Rarezas y extravagancias de Azul. Apuntes sobre Rub n Dar o a los 150 a os de su nacimiento / Jesse Fern ndez Voces en conflicto en A Roosevelt de Rub n Dar o / Guillermo Arango Aspectos m ticos en el teatro de Julio Matas / Esther Sanchez-Grey El texto cervantino: un enfoque (in)formativo tridimensional / Martha Garc a Jos Ortega y Gasset: An lisis de la est tica de la vocac on de dos pintores de la corte espa ola / Alicia Bralove Marcos Aguinis ante el atroz encanto de ser argentino / Josefina Leyva COMO LOS P JAROS de Rub n Balseiro.Una m gica aventura entre el sol y el abismo / Bertha Bilbao Richter Conciencia y virtud en Las Ratas de Miguel Delibes / Pedro Blas Gonz lez Miguel Castellanos, el olvidado pianista cl sico cubano, alabado por Jos Mart / Andr s Castellanos Del Corral La joven rep blica cubana Tercer conflicto armado / Alberto Yannuzzi Jos A. Albertini. Siempre en el entonces. Dos noveletas y ocho cuentos / Luis de la Paz Maricel Mayor Mars n. Miami, poemas de la ciudad / Guillermo Arango Elio Alba Buffill: Trascendencia humana, intelectual e hist rica / J. A. Albertini.

An exploration of Latino-Caribbean literature written in the United States. Writers whose works are examined include: Julia Alvarez; Judith Ortiz Cofer; Victor Hernandez Cruz; Franklin Gutierrez; Cristina Garcia; Oscar Hijuelos; Carolina Hospital; Rosario Morales; and others.