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  • Adam in Paradise
  • Gastón Baquero (bio)
    Translated by Greg Simon (bio) and Steven F. White (bio)

Adam takes his very first stroll alone with the origin of wind in his hair, destroying empty space, giving human breath to stars and desire to all metals. Now the universe is a Sabian garden that sings, a perfumed place that turns the ground into earth, the air into wind, expanding the light to unveil desire. Where burning lava once burst into flame, the color of green moss is spreading. Where fires raged, there is a temperate land; fruit, not stone; a memory that recalls an eternity with no start or end, and a God lost in thought, then simply lost.

Gastón Baquero

Gastón Baquero (1916–1997) was born in Banes, which is now part of the province of Holguin in Cuba. In spite of the rural poverty in which he was born and reared, he was educated as an agronomist before becoming a journalist and poet. Shortly after the Cuban Revolution began, he left the island nation for Spain, where he lived until his death in Madrid in 1997, having published several collections of essays, as well as eight volumes of poems. The Angel of Rain, a selection of his poetry in English translation by Greg Simon and Steven F. White, will be published this summer by Eastern Washington University Press.

Greg Simon

Greg Simon, a native of Minnesota, has published translations of poetry from the work of Spanish, Portuguese, German, and Russian writers. He is the co-translator, with Steven F. White and Christopher Maurer, of Federico García Lorca's Poet in New York (FSG, 1988). Simon is currently an associate editor with Trask House Books and The Salt River Review. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Steven F. White

Steven F. White, a professor of modern languages and literature at St. Lawrence University, has edited and translated anthologies of contemporary poetry from Nicaragua, Chile, and Brazil. He is author of Modern Nicaraguan Poetry: Dialogues with France [End Page 704] and the United States (1993) and five books of poems, including Landscape with One Candle and Assyrian Bees (1995), published in a bilingual edition in Brazil, and Fire that Engenders Fire (2000), published in bilingual edition in Madrid. He is a corresponding member of the Nicaraguan Academy of the Language and an advisory and contributing editor of Callaloo.

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