Description: "Longlisted for the 2017 National Translation Award in Poetry" (https: //literarytranslators.wordpress.com/2017/06/26/announcing-the-2017-national-translation-award-longlists-for-poetry-and-prose/).
Marcelo Morales's The World as Presence/El mundo como ser is the debut of a gripping collection of poetry from one of Cuba's premier young poets.Review Quotes:
"Through Kristin Dykstra's superb translation of The World as Presence/El mundo como ser, we see Marcelo Morales's never-ending need to articulate, to question, and to be awed by what is important to him as intellectual, as citizen, as family member, and poet. While his concerns are often political, philosophical, and global, they are at the same time intricately and inseparably bound to the body and the personal life of the poet. Morales directly interrogates (in a context that does not encourage or support directness) both the Cuban past and present, and through his work we find reference to a number of important markers of Cuban history and culture. An unforgettable presence for the unforgettable tenseness of the present."
--Daniel Borzutzky, author of The Book of Interfering Bodies and The Performance of Becoming Human