
Tears and Flowers
A Poet of Migration in Old Key West
Feliciano Castro(Author)
University Press of Florida
Published on 31. October 2024
Book
Hardback
144 pages
978-0-8130-7913-4 (ISBN)
Description
A bilingual edition of poetry that provides a unique window into Cuban emigre life A rare glimpse into the history of the Cuban community in Key West in the early twentieth century, this book makes the poetry of Feliciano Castro available in English for the first time. A Galician Cuban who lived for decades in the southernmost city of the United States, Castro worked as a lector reading to cigar factory employees, a newspaper editor, a printer, and a writer. He published Lagrimas y flores, a collection of his poetry, in 1918. Translated here by Rhi Johnson, Castro's poems provide a window into an overlooked literary culture.
Johnson and Joy Castro open this bilingual edition with an introduction detailing the writer's biography, literary context, and cultural milieu. Tears and Flowers highlights questions of national identity, migration, belonging, and courtship in Cuban emigre society, connects Florida to the Spanish-speaking communities of the Caribbean and Spain, and recovers the literary archive of a rich moment in US and Latinx history for a contemporary audience.
Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Johnson and Joy Castro open this bilingual edition with an introduction detailing the writer's biography, literary context, and cultural milieu. Tears and Flowers highlights questions of national identity, migration, belonging, and courtship in Cuban emigre society, connects Florida to the Spanish-speaking communities of the Caribbean and Spain, and recovers the literary archive of a rich moment in US and Latinx history for a contemporary audience.
Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Florida
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paper over boards
Illustrations
5 b&w illus., 1 table
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
735 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8130-7913-4 (9780813079134)
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Persons
Feliciano Castro (1892-1982) was a poet, printer, editor, and lector who was born in Galicia, raised in Cuba, and lived for over six decades in Key West.
Joy Castro, Willa Cather Professor of English and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska, is the author of many books, including One Brilliant Flame and Island of Bones. She is the granddaughter of Feliciano Castro.
Rhi Johnson, assistant professor of Spanish at Indiana University, Bloomington, is the editor and translator of Because I Want to See the Sea: Poems by Rosalia de Castro.
Joy Castro, Willa Cather Professor of English and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska, is the author of many books, including One Brilliant Flame and Island of Bones. She is the granddaughter of Feliciano Castro.
Rhi Johnson, assistant professor of Spanish at Indiana University, Bloomington, is the editor and translator of Because I Want to See the Sea: Poems by Rosalia de Castro.