Labyrinth: Selected Poetry and Prose of Lorenzo García Vega

This book introduces English-speaking readers to the Cuban writer Lorenzo Garcí a Vega, one of the great outliers of modern Latin American poetry, who devoted his work to what he called "the vocation of losing." Variously associated with Surrealism and the neo-Baroque, but rejecting all literary pigeonholing, Garcí a Vega constructed a personal labyrinth in whose recesses are encountered precocious lyrical musings, ironic yet anguished examinations of childhood and youth in Cuba and daily l...