Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. ARCHING INTO THE AFTERLIFE presents us with an unusual critique of the nature of freedom, a spiritual journey through madness and hell, a coda to dead Cubans, and, above all, the song of an apostate who finds "God's face receding" from a land "full of innocence/ and a comfortable slumber." In Medina we find a constant tension between despair and hope, between the insensate and the blessing of empathy, between a cold death and the cleansing of dead winter. What Carthage was to St. Augustine, Trenton, New Jersey, is to Pablo Medina.

Author City: BOSTON, MA USA

Pablo Medina's poetry has been called "exuberant," "provocative," and "nothing short of linguistic mastery." Born in Big Banana Havana, Medina grew up in Big Apple New York. Fruit, he loves fruit. He longs for Big Papaya, pink and juicy, of which he can't get enough. He is also a novelist, translator, and essayist. His books of poetry include THE MAN WHO WROTE ON WATER (Hanging Loose Press, 2011), THE FLOATING ISLAND (White Pine Press, 1999), and ARCHING INTO THE AFTERLIFE (Bilingual Review Press, 1991). Medina lives in Boston, in an exile surrounded by icicles, and is on the faculty at Emerson College and Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.

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