Victor Rodriguez Nunez

Night Badly Written: Poems 2000-2015 Victor Rodriguez Nunez

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Katherine M. Hedeen. The imagination of this Cuban, this true poet...stains the darkness of these times with a red squirrel guided by the light... Víctor Rodríguez Núñez doesn't wait for the arrival of anyone because he was baptized by poetry at birth.--Juan Gelman

Víctor Rodríguez Núñez is a unique poet, not comparable to anyone writing today in any language I can read. [...] Immense is his power of inheritance, the fierceness of his autonomy, compassion and instinct to broaden the livable space. Nobody else has such a gift to encompass so many crossroads, to be at the heights Vallejo once was, but so free and singular. Nobody else can be gracious, quotidian, marvelously strange and a winner of history at the same time. With branches and roots still expanding.--Tomaz Salamun

This collection by Víctor Rodríguez Núñez lets the night speak in its revolutionary strangeness, 'withstand[ing] / the advance of clarity' and established order. I know of no poet who gives us such vital access to 'the crowded inner landscape' and puts us into such intimate relationship to its numinous mysteries. This visionary poetry is fearless, fierce, and dazzling.--Mary Szybist