Jose Marti: An Introduction

OSCAR MONTERO is Professor, Department of Spanish, City University of New York, USA Graduate Center/Lehman College. He is the author of Erotismo y Representacion en Julian del Casal (Rodopi Editions, 1993) and The Name Game: Writing/Fading Writer (UNC Press, 1988)

• Introduction Coney Island: The Mislaying of the Dream Men, Women and Workers of the Mind Against Race Poetry is not a Luxury Panamericanism's Empty Train Marti Faces Death

'The book places Marti in relation to American authors such as Emerson and Whitman, with whom he carried out a dialogue of which most Americans are not aware. I cannot think of a better introduction to the Cuban poet and patriot in any language.' - Roberto González Echevarría, Yale University.