And I Say Yes

And I Say Yes Nancy Morejón (bio) Translated by Pamela Carmell (bio) They tell me I live in a cloud and I say yes but it's not that simple. Also living there are a duck, a peacock, a tortoise, a rooster, a sunflower and as many words as there are tears, and in the middle of the swirling winds the soul of the people like a king of the atmosphere, swaying in the currents in the sky. Nancy Morejón Nancy Morejón—poet, literary critic, and translator—is author of a number of volumes of poems, including Richard trajo se flauta, Cuarderno de Granada, and Elogio de la danza. Her critical essays are Lengua de P‡jaro, Recopilaci—n de textos sobre Nicol‡s Guill n, and Naci—n y mestizaje en Nicol‡s Guill n. Morejón, who majored in French as an undergraduate student, is the first black Cuban to graduate from the University of Havana in Cuba. Pamela Carmell Pamela Carmell is co-translator of With Eyes and Soul, a selection of poems by Nancy Morejón that was published by White Pine Press in 2004. She has also translated texts by a number of other writers, including Luisa Valenzuela, Manuel Puig, Ena Luc'a Portela, Soledad Puertotas, Gloria Fuertes, and Carmen Boullosa. Carmell's translation of Antonio Lerreta's novel, The Last Portrait of the Duchess of Alba, was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, and her translation of poems by Belkis Cuza Mal, Woman on the Front Lines, was awarded the Witter Bynner Prize. Copyright © 2005 Charles H. Rowell

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