A Fountain, a House of Stone: Poems

by Heberto Padilla

Book Overview

A Fountain, a House of Stone is a bilingual collection of poems by Cuba's foremost living poet, Herbert Padilla, who now lives in exile in the United States. Padilla's poems constitute a subtle but powerful poetry of domesticity in exile, in which his characteristically questioning, critical poetics have been not so much abandoned as subsumed. His lyricism here finds its inspiration largely in the quotidian, but the same meditative lyric intelligence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374157812
• ISBN13: 9780374157814
• Release Date: November 1991
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 109 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.8"