Itinerario del olvido / Itinerary of Forgetting
Description
Itinerario del olvido / Itinerary of Forgetting is a sixteen-part series from Nelson Simón's award-winning collection A la sombra de los muchachos en flor, which won both the Julián del Casal Poetry Prize from La Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba and later the Premio de la Crítica Literaria. Itinerary of Forgetting is Simón's first publication in English and has been translated by Lawrence Schimel. Simón's work tackles both homosexuality & politics (an act both bold and brave for an openly gay writer in Cuba in the late 90s) while at the same time situating itself within the lyric traditions of both Cuba and the larger Spanish-speaking world. Poems from these translations have appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation and Cigar City Poetry Journal. The chapbook will have poems printed in translation in English as well as in the original Spanish.
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About the Author
Lawrence Schimel (New York, 1971) is a full-time author, writing in both Spanish and English, who has published over one hundred books in a wide range of genres. He is also a prolific literary translator. His picture books have been selected for the White Ravens from the International Youth Library in Munich, Germany and have twice been chosen for IBBY's Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities, among many other awards, honors, and Distinctions. His work has been published in Basque, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Turkish, and Ukrainian translations. He started the Spain chapter of the Society of Children's Book Writers and illustrators and served as its Regional Advisor for five years. He also coordinated the International SCBWI Conference in Madrid and the first two SCBWI-Bologna Book Fair conferences. He lives in Madrid, Spain and New York City.
Reviews
"Nelson Simón's Itinerary of Forgetting is a crucial text that inscribes our bark with its loss, reaching out from the page as if raising a ghost. Lawrence Schimel has brought Simón's unmistakable voice into English and has done so with the tenderness of a translator who has taken the time to mark each heartbeat, each word in its rise and fall."
--RAQUEL SALAS RIVERA, AUTHOR OF LO TERCIARIO/ THE TERTIARY AND WHILE THEY SLEEP (UNDER THE BED IS ANOTHER COUNTRY)
