Points of Balance

by Pablo Medina

Cuban-born New York poet Pablo Medina's bilingual fulcros are six-line poems that, as he writes, "combine the dialectic of the sonnet with the imagistic power of the haiku... shaping language and silence into a point of balance floating in the ocean of time." These short poems, which are not translations of each other, draw us into an intellectual condition: Spanish and English, visual and theoretical, intimate and abstract, where "the thrush sings...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1884800645
• ISBN13: 9781884800641
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Four Way Books
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.3"