Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Victor Rodriguez Nunez's TASKS [TAREAS] is an award--winning poetry collection, the recipient of Spain's Rincon de la Victoria Prize in 2010 and published there by the prestigious press Renacimiento in 2011. With striking images and memorable verses, TASKS creates a testament to the poet's unique migratory experience. While seemingly the chronicle of an immigrant who returns to his native country, the poem really asks how to return if you've never actually left. Using rigorous formal aspects ...
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Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Victor Rodriguez Nunez's TASKS [TAREAS] is an award--winning poetry collection, the recipient of Spain's Rincon de la Victoria Prize in 2010 and published there by the prestigious press Renacimiento in 2011. With striking images and memorable verses, TASKS creates a testament to the poet's unique migratory experience. While seemingly the chronicle of an immigrant who returns to his native country, the poem really asks how to return if you've never actually left. Using rigorous formal aspects to create a sense of pushing beyond known limits, this innovative long poem has at its core a rethinking of the experience of otherness, in which identification--both with memory and quotidian experience and with place tangled in subjectivity--prevails over any kind of differentiation. This leads not only to a profound questioning of nationalism but also of cultural identity itself. The result, which Katherine M. Hedeen renders for Anglophone readers, is a fluid poetic subject who disrespects borders and privileges movement over fixedness. "'...I'm / a phantom in this barbershop / mirrors eaten away by shadow' Victor Rodriguez Nunez tells us in Katherine Hedeen's magnificent translation. And later: 'I linger in the snow a royal palm on my shoulder,' and still later: 'identity lurks / like a forgotten ring in a public bathroom.' These poems are intimate and historic, woven of memory, inhabiting a space that invites the reader in. This is the voice of a mature poet, a Cuban straddling the century in which his country rose about him, lifting him on shoulders of discovery, loss and everything in between. Rodriguez Nunez is one of his generation's most powerful poets, TASKS among his most satisfying books, and Hedeen's English renderings nothing short of magical." —
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