This book introduces English-speaking readers to the Cuban writer Lorenzo García Vega, one of the great outliers of modern Latin American poetry, who devoted his work to what he called “the vocation of losing.” Variously associated with Surrealism and the neo-Baroque, but rejecting all literary pigeonholing, García Vega constructed a personal labyrinth in whose recesses are encountered precocious lyrical musings, ironic yet anguished examinations of childhood and youth in Cuba and daily life in the exilic deserts of Miami, and self-interrogations of personal memories and psychic obsessions and the limits of language in articulating them. Edited, introduced, and translated by Christopher Winks, Labyrinth presents the full range of García Vega’s radical, uncompromising body of work.
—Mark Weiss, editor, The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry
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