McNally Jackson Independent Booksellers is hosting a virtual event tonight on the translation of Cuban writer Severo Sarduy's poetry titled Footwork: Selected Poems. This is the link to register for the event. This is the link to the event page.
"Poet, novelist, and literary theorist, Severo Sarduy was one of the most groundbreaking Latin American writers of the twentieth century. Born in Camagüey, Cuba in 1937, he moved to Havana in 1956 to study medicine, but soon gave up his scientific pursuits for the arts. From 1960 until the time of his death, the poet lived in Paris. Sarduy died due to complications with AIDS in 1993. The poetry in Footwork makes it clear why Gabriel García Márquez once called Sarduy the best writer in the Spanish language. Although Sarduy's novels have been translated into English and received praise from such writers as Roland Barthes, Richard Howard, and James McCourt, this is the first collection of his poetry to appear in English translation. Footwork presents poems from throughout Sarduy's life, following the thrilling trajectory of a great thinker."
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