Guide to the Blue Tongue: Poems

by Virgil Suárez

Book Overview

Shimmering with saturated color and heat, Guide to the Blue Tongue is an intoxicating sequence of memory poems about growing up in the tropics, threaded through the myth of Caliban from Shakespeare's The Tempest.

Caliban is the monstrous native, in love with what he cannot possess, lost to his own sense of identity. In Virgil Su rez's vision, the island of Caliban's imprisonment merges with the island of Cuba, where the carboneros make...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025207050X
• ISBN13: 9780252070501
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"