A NEW CADENCE POETRY
SERIES PRESENTS
FORBIDDEN
PLEASURES
a reading and
book signing by Stephen Kessler
from his
translation of the New Selected Poems of one of Spain’s greatest
poets
LUIS
CERNUDA
Saturday July 18, 2015,
7pm
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street
Santa Cruz
Luis Cernuda (1902-1963) is one of the
leading modern poets in the Spanish language. Stephen Kessler’s
earlier translation of Cernuda’s prose poems, Written in Water
(City Lights Books, 2004) received the Lambda Literary Award for
Gay Men’s Poetry, and his version of Cernuda’s late poems,
Desolation of the Chimera (White Pine Press, 2009), received
the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of
American Poets. Forbidden Pleasures (Black Widow Press,
2015), which is selected from the first twenty-five years of
Cernuda’s career (1924-1949), completes the third volume of
Kessler’s selected Cernuda and is the largest collection of his
poetry ever to appear in English. Please join us to celebrate the
publication of this important book.
For more about the translator, visit
www.stephenkessler.com.
CO-SPONSORED BY POETRY SANTA CRUZ
