Delicates

Poems from a critically acclaimed Cuban writer available in English for the first time. Imbued with a sensuality reminiscent of the work of Anas Nin, Wendy Guerras Delicates takes readers on an exhilarating journey through the cities of love, where women leave their bodies in the showers of men, marking their territory like animals in heat, their panties saturated with sand and a sidereal isolating odor. Guerras shocking metaphors and images invite us to enter her gallery of striking and provoking poems where we witness a flight through the air from a thirty-fourth-story window and a womans pilgrimage to the salt flats to taste the pink in stones on her lovers behalf. Guerras relationship with her native Cubamuch like her relationships with menis complex and multilayered. Her work confronts the realities of a political system that doesnt celebrate artistic freedom. Here we have a new way of looking at a woman, an artist, a country, and the colonizers of that country. In these music-infused poems, Guerra shares with us her hard-won truths.