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V�ctor Rodr�guez N��ez's prize-winning despegue / departure is a book about poetry, place, and belonging. Its rich, challenging, and subversive sonnets reveal the complexities and possibilities of Cuban contemporary poetry to a new English-language audience. Rodr�guez N��ez speaks to a global generation of exiles and those whose hearts remain forever elsewhere, those who have found another home. despegue / departure is an original, inventive and unflinching examination of what it means to leave, to be left behind, and of our ability to stay.

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V�ctor Rodr�guez N��ez (Havana, 1955) is one of Cuba's most outstanding and celebrated contemporary writers, with over eighty collections of his poetry published throughout the world. He has been the recipient of major awards in the Spanish-speaking region. His selected poems have been translated into over a dozen languages and he has read his poetry in over fifty countries. He divides his time between Gambier, Ohio, where he is Professor of Spanish at Kenyon College, and Havana, Cuba. www.victorrodrigueznunez.com Katherine M. Hedeen is a prize-winning translator of poetry and an essayist. Her latest translations include collections by Juan Calzadilla, Antonio Gamoneda, Fina Garc�a Marruz, and Ra�l G�mez Jattin. She is the co-editor, with Welsh poet Zo� Skoulding, of the groundbreaking transatlantic translation anthology, Poetry's Geographies (Eulalia / Shearsman 2022). She is Managing Editor of Action Books. She resides in Ohio, where she is Professor of Spanish at Kenyon College, and Havana, Cuba. www.katherinemhedeen.com

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