The Counterpunch (and Other Horizontal Poems)/El Contragolpe (Y Otros Poemas Horizontales)

by Juan Carlos Flores

Alamar, the home of award-winning Cuban poet Juan Carlos Flores, is the setting for his collection, The Counterpunch and Other Horizontal Poems) / El contragolpe (y otros poemas horizontales). Constructed as a self-help community in eastern Havana, Alamar is the largest housing complex in the world. Flores's highly structured texts, organized into "art galleries," present prose paintings of a big place in very small form.

Flores builds...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817358137
• ISBN13: 9780817358136
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"