Reina María Rodríguez prepares to begin her 2011 reading at the
Americas Society in New York. Photo by B. D. Collier.

CRITICISM & COMMENTARIES

"Merging Exile into Diaspora: Other Letters to Milena." Forthcoming in Diálogo.

Critical introduction to The Winter Garden Photograph / La foto del invernadero, a collection by Reina María Rodríguez. Forthcoming; for full book citation, see Translation (Books) section. Print.

"Finding a Way in Alamar." Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas 82 ("Cuba Inside and Out," 44.1, May 2011). 29-38. Print.

“On Poetical Renovations in Alamar.” Introduction to selected poems from Counterpunch (El contragolpe), by Juan Carlos Flores, and translations. At "La azotea de Reina" in La Habana Elegante, Segunda época (Fall/Winter 2010). Digital.

"Notices on Obits." Introduction to selected poems from Óbitos, by Pedro Marqués, and translations. La Habana Elegante, Segunda época (Spring/Summer 2010). Digital.

"'A Just Image': Poetic Montage and Cuba's Special Period in The Winter Garden Photograph." Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 41.2 (2008): 55-74. Print.

“‘Do I maybe have the biography of a hero.' Notes on Ángel Escobar.” Mandorla: Nueva escritura de las Américas / New Writing from the Americas 11 (2008): 337-348. Print.

"'Coño acere, todo se vuelve agua!': On Omar Pérez, b. Havana, 1964." (Article) Online at Jacket Magazine, #35, Early 2008. N.p. Digital.

"Gossiping Cuba: Omar Pérez and the Name of the Father" (article on contemporary Cuban and Cuban-American literature). Mandorla: Nueva escritura de las Américas / New Writing from the Americas 10 (2007): 322-344. Reprinted online in Omar Pérez feature in Jacket Magazine, #35, Early 2008 (digital).

"Commentary." Essay in Something of the Sacred/Algo de lo sagrado (2007), 185-206. For full book citation, see Translation (Books) section. Print.

"Translator's Notes." Critical overview of contexts and content of a 2001 essay by Omar Pérez. Origin ~ Longhouse Sixth Series, No. 4 (2007): 143-149. Print.

"Translator's Note." In La detención del tiempo / Time's Arrest (2nd ed., 2005), 43-54. For full book citation, see Translation (Books) section. Print.

“On the Betrayal of Nations: José Alvarez de Toledo's Philadelphia Manifesto (1811) and Justification (1816).” CR: The New Centennial Review 4.1 (2004): 267-305. Print.

“Afterword: ‘The Only Time That I Will Witness': The Poetry of Reina María Rodríguez.” In Violet Island and Other Poems (2004), 163-204. For full book citation, see Translation (Books) section. Print.

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REVIEWS

“On Equal Footing: Recent Works by Urayoán Noel.” Extended review in Jacket2. 25 April 2012. Digital.

“The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature Weighs In." Extended review in The Common Review (magazine of the Great Books Foundation), 14 March 2012. Digital.

“The Absurdly Real.” Review: Mathews, Harry. My Life in CIA (Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2005). American Book Review 27.4 (May/June 2006): 12-13. Print.