A Little Body Are Many Parts: Un Cuerpecito Son Muchas Partes Iglesias Legna Rodrguez

Legna Rodr guez Iglesias has quickly become one of the most celebrated Cuban poets writing today. Particularly arresting is her uncomfortable focus on the human body, which she dramatises in isolation, stripping it of context, making it strange and even obscene. Her intense - often confrontational - poetry refuses to conform, subverting expectations and challenging social mores.

This selection offers a broad survey of Rodr guez Iglesias's work, drawing on eight previous collections in Spanish. Alongside poems of extreme descriptive vigour, Rodr guez Iglesias irreverently skewers the hypocrisies, clich s and hierarchies of our time. Throughout, the poems are inflected with Cuban history and explore the tensions between the generation of the Revolution and her own.

The consequences of poet's long-term residence in Miami are forcefully brought home through poems of emigration and