Poetry. BREAD OF THE IMAGINED is a highly sophisticated poetry of exile and artistic probing, nourished by Hispanic and international art and cultures. It is also a poetry of synthesis between the symbols of contemporary Americana and the classical Hispanic tradition. The poems are written in English, but their myths, symbols, and values span the earth, and they nourish us where we need it most, in the mind's eye. Pau-Llosa's distinguished collection of poems carries forward the history of Cuba even as it leaps into a tradition of Whitman, Williams, Eliot, and others that created a poetry we call American.