This work presents the poetry of major Nicaraguan poet Pablo Antonio Cuadra (1912-2002) from the perspective of ecocriticism, which is the study of literature in relation to the physical environment.
Steven F White was born in Abington, Pennsylvania in 1955 and was raised in Glencoe, Illinois. He received a B.A. in English from Williams College and an M.A. in Spanish and Hispanic American literature from the University of Oregon. White has translated and edited anthologies of poetry from Nicaragua, Chile and Brazil. With Greg Simon, he translated Federico García Lorca’s Poet in New York.
His recent books include a translation of the screenplay for Cruz e Sousa: The Banished Poet by Brazilian filmmaker Sylvio Back, the anthology Ayahuasca Reader: Encounters with the Amazon’s Sacred Vine and Fire that Engenders Fire, a book of poems in a bilingual edition.
He currently teaches in the Department of Modern Languages at St. Lawrence University.