Corazón de Pelicano/Pelican Heart - Emilio Jorge Rodríguez

CORAZÓN DE PELCANO / PELICAN HEART
An Anthology of Poems by Lasana M. Sekou
Emilio Jorge Rodríguez

ANTHOLOGY

Bilingual anthology on the poems of St. Martin writer Lasana M. Sekou. Cuban essayist and literary critic Emilio Jorge Rodríguez made a selection, gives an introduction and makes notes.
Lasana M. Sekou is the author of 16 books of poetry, monologues, and short stories. He is the leading St. Martin writer and is considered as one of the prolific Caribbean poets of his generation.

REVIEW
"Defiance, movement, and renewal are three words that come to mind when reading PELICAN HEART. While the poems themselves defy an easy classification, the collection proposes a new way to 'travel' and 'read' the Caribbean world and beyond"
- Ivette Romero-Cesareo

“Estos poemas, con su oido claro, su hocico observador y su ritmo de tambor innombrable, anuncian la posibilidad de un Caribe major”.
- Nancy Morejon, escritora, Cuba

“Sobrecoge la fuerte y sonora oralidad de sus versos, con la cual rinde tributo a la tradicion africana de sus origenes. Escucharle es remontarse al Africa, al canto y grito del hombre y la mujer negra, al sensual rumor de lo subyacente en nuestra insularidad.”
- Chiqui Vicioso, escritora, Republica Dominicana

AUTHOR
EMILIO JORGE RODRIGUEZ is a Cuban essayist and literary critic. The Havana University graduate is a former director of the Casa de las Americas Center of Caribbean Studies, where he was also a researcher from 1979 to 2000. Rodriguez founded and edited Anales del Caribe (1981-2000). He has lectured at universities in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the USA. Rodriguez is the author of Literatura Caribeña; bojeo y cuaderno de bitacora and Acriollamiento y discurso escrit/oral Caribeño. He has contributed essays to numerous books, including America Latina: Palabra, Literatura e Cultura, A History of Literature in the Caribbean, and Encyclopedia of Caribbean Literature.

PRODUCT SPECIFICATION
Spanish, English | paperback | 420 pages | House of Nehesi Publishers | St. Martin, Caribbean | 2010