Dulce Maria Loynaz (1902-1997) has been called Cuba's own Emily Dickinson. Although Loynaz was widely published in Spain during the 1950s and was a close friend of Federico Lorca, Juan Jimenez and Gabriela Mistral, her poetry was forbidden in Cuba, and she was ostracised under Castro's dictatorship. This book presents a selection of her poems.
The first available English translation of this work shares numerous selections of the author's most popular poems. A cultural icon in her native Cuba, Loynaz's poetry was considered taboo because of its individualistic, apolitical preoccupations. This collection contains poems from each of Loynaz's books, including the acclaimed prose poems from "Poems with No Names, "a selection of posthumously published work.