Tokonoma

by Jose Kozer, Peter Boyle (Translator)

Overview

José Kozer was born in 1940 in Havana, Cuba, of Jewish parents who had emigrated from Poland and Czechoslovakia. He left his native land in 1960, lived in New York until 1997, when he retired as full Professor from Queens College, where he had taught Spanish and Latin American literature for thirty-two years. After living for two years in Spain, he then moved to Florida. His poetry has been translated into many languages, has been widely anthologised and has appeared in literary journals all over the world. His work is the subject of several master's and doctoral dissertations, and has been studied on many graduate and undergraduate courses. José Kozer was awarded the Premio de Poesía Iberoamericana Pablo Neruda (the Pablo Neruda Latin-American Poetry Prize) for 2013. Tokonoma was first published in Spain in 2011.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781848613744
Publisher:	Shearsman Books
Publication date:	10/15/2014
Pages:	262
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

José Kozer (born Havana, 1940) is the son of parents who migrated to Cuba from Poland and Czechoslovakia in the 1920s, and the grandson of a founder of Adath Israel, Cuba's first Ashkenazi synagogue. He studied law at the University of Havana, left Cuba in 1960, and received a BA from New York University in 1965. He taught for many years at Queens College of the City University of New York, retiring as a full professor in 1997, after which he lived for two years in Spain before settling in South Florida. Regarded as the leading Cuban poet of his generation, he is the author of 63 poetry collections, including TOKONOMA (Shearsman Books, 2014), ANIMA (Shearsman Books, 2011), and STET: SELECTED POEMS (Junction Press, 2006). In 2013 he was awarded the "Pablo Neruda" award by the Chilean government, one of the most important literary prizes in the Spanish-speaking world.