Violet Island and Other Poems

Born in Havana in 1952, Reina María Rodriguez developed her poetry in a cultural climate that could be both encouraging and tense. Over the years she struggled to establish a questioning, experimental poetics that has both expressed and questioned -values of contemporary Cuban culture. Winner of the Casa de las Americas prize of poetry, the UNEAC Prize, and the Julián del Casal prize, Rodriguez is recognized today as one of the most -outstanding of Cuban writers.