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Print Write a review Email this page		Tales from the Cuban Empire Antonio José Ponte Translated by Cola Franzen Paperback - $11.95 $8.37 Save $3.58 (30%) Description Reviews Detailed info Reader Reviews Cola Franzen Cola Franzen has translated from Spanish some twenty volumes of prose and poetry, including Poems of Arab Andalusia (City Lights), Claudia Guillén's The Challenge of Comparative Literature, and Dreams of the Abandoned Seducer by Alicia Borinsky. Translation: In the Cold of the Malecon and Other Stories Antonio José Ponte Departing from both the utopian-political and the romantic-baroque styles of past Cuban literature, Ponte deftly sketches a picture of a contemporary Cuba that is very different from the stereotype of Caribbean life, full of music and dance and... Horses in the Air and Other Poems Jorge Guillén Winner of the 2000 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award. A major Spanish poet of the Generation of '27, Jorge Guillen's luminous poetry, marked by nobility of mind, balance, and clarity of vision, deserves to be more widely known to readers... Poems of Arab Andalusia Cola Franzen These poems, from the astonishing 10th- through 13th-century civilization in Andalusia, are based on the codex of Ibn Sa'id, who wanted poems "whose idea is more subtle than the West Wind, and whose language is more beautiful than a fair face."...