Stet: Selected Poems

by José Kozer

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Mark Weiss. "The poetry of Kozer, in this beautifully selected & translated edition, moves from a particular person & place (Cuban, Jewish, caught between home & exile) into a tangle of locations & perceptions that gives his poetry a nearly epic status. While the work has an avant-garde ("neobaroque") foundation--& it does--it's the humanity of the writing (passionate & comic by turns & always precisely referential) that predicts its lasting greatness. A resident of America & of the world, Jose Kozer is a poet who works at full throttle, gives us thereby what poetry has never done before & what it has always done"--Jerome Rothenberg. Jose Kozer came to the United States from his native Havana as a twenty year old in 1960. Since then he has become recognized throughout the Spanish-speaking world as the foremost Cuban poet of his generation and one of Latin America's most influential poets. STET is his first major bilingual publication.

Genres: Poetry

222 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2006

About the author

José Kozer is a poet and author of over 60 collections of poetry. Born in Havana, Cuba, to a Polish father and a Czhechoslovakian mother, Kozer and his family migrated to New York during his 20’s where he studied at New York University and at Queens College, where he later taught as Full Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literatures for over 30 years.