SANTA BARBARA — Professors Suzanne Jill Levine and Jorge Luis Castillo will present a bilingual reading of Tides, at 4 p.m. Tuesday, May 31 at the McCune Conference Room.
The reading is a translation of a chapbook of poetry by Pedro Xavier Solís that addresses bipolarity. Pedro Xavier Solís, grandson of Pablo Antonio Cuadra, one of Nicaragua’s most famous poets, lives in Managua. A poet, essayist, and fiction writer, he serves on the boards of directors of the Nicaraguan Academy of Language and of the Granada International Poetry Festival.
Tides is very much a work in dialogue – with the “you” to whom its poems are addressed, with the many writers who those poems reference and quote and thus, by extension, with literature itself. Solís Cuadra’s approach is readerly and his style light, in spite of the occasionally dark turns that the poems make. This bilingual edition of Tides, translated from the Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine, is the first collection by the Nicaraguan writer to be published in English.
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