Dolor fantasma de La Habana

Bys: Selimov, Alexander and Selimov, Alexander T.

Bilingual poems (Spanish and English) charting a Havana lost to time and distance, written in the colloquial register of the filin and the lyric register of Cavafy. Tender without sentimentality and critical without bitterness, the book turns memory into cartography and absence into form.
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"El libro reconstruye un mapa de esa Cuba, de esa Habana, con una mirada tremendamente cr tica y profunda, pero lo hace con tacto y sutileza -algo que solo se logra desde el amor. Contrapone lo narrativo con momentos de intensidad l rica, sem ntica, existencial, elevando el poema m s all de lo meramente anecd tico."

"The book reconstructs a map of that Cuba, that Havana, with a tremendously critical and probing gaze, yet does so with tact and subtlety - something that can only be achieved out of love. It counterposes the narrative with moments of lyrical, semantic, and existential intensity, elevating the poem beyond the merely anecdotal."

- Nelson Sim n, Premio UNEAC Juli n del Casal, Premio de la Cr tica

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GCX17NQL
• ISBN13: 9798994380802
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Ibero American Literary Society
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"