Delicates

Poems from a critically acclaimed Cuban writer available in English for the first time.   Imbued with a sensuality reminiscent of the work of Anaïs Nin, Wendy GuerraâEUR(TM)s Delicates takes readers on an exhilarating journey through the cities of love, where women leave their bodies âEUR?in the showers of men,âEUR? marking their territory âEUR?like animals in heat,âEUR? their panties âEUR?saturated with sand and a sidereal isolating odor.âEUR? GuerraâEUR(TM)s shocking metaphors and images invite us to enter her gallery of striking and provoking poems where we witness a flight through the air from a thirty-fourth-story window and a womanâEUR(TM)s pilgrimage to the salt flats âEUR?to taste the pink in stonesâEUR? on her loverâEUR(TM)s behalf. GuerraâEUR(TM)s relationship with her native CubaâEUR"much like her relationships with menâEUR"is complex and multilayered. Her work confronts the realities of a political system that doesnâEUR(TM)t celebrate artistic freedom. Here we have a new way of looking at a woman, an artist, a country, and the colonizers of that country. In these music-infused poems, Guerra shares with us her hard-won truths.