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Books by Pablo Medina
  | | The Cuban Comedy by Pablo Medina Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2019 by The Unnamed Press ISBN-13: 978-1-944700-87-4, ISBN: 1-944700-87-0 ""A literary triumph." ―NBC News A love story steeped in political satire, poetry, and the lightest touches of magical realism, Medina has created a bold, funny narrative with an uncanny heroine at its core: Elena of Piedra Negra, Cuba. Piedra Negra is an isolated village, whose citizens consist mainly of soldiers injured in the revolution who pass the time drinking a firewater so intense, all hallucinate, and most never recover. The fi ..." |
 | | The Floating Island(1st Edition) by Pablo Medina Paperback, 104 Pages, Published 1999 by White Pine Press ISBN-13: 978-1-893996-01-4, ISBN: 1-893996-01-8 ""The pure pleasure of reading Pablo Medina's poetry is a measure of its lyric power, its spare and elegant language, the hairpin turns of its metaphors, the emotional ambience of its landscapes, its mating of sexual exuberance and historical ..." |
 | | The Man Who Wrote on Water by Pablo Medina Paperback, 102 Pages, Published 2011 by Hanging Loose Press ISBN-13: 978-1-934909-19-5, ISBN: 1-934909-19-X "Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. "Pablo Medina's poems belong to the real world even while they move across the borders of dreams and wild imagination. They sustain a tone that's both sophisticated and innocent, delivering fresh news of what it feels like to be alive and human. I love these poems for their music and vivid imagery. I love their clarity, whether evoking city or bull pasture or bedroom, or an interior landscape. I love follo ..." |
 | | Exiled Memories A Cuban Childhood by Pablo Medina Paperback, 135 Pages, Published 2002 by Persea ISBN-13: 978-0-89255-280-1, ISBN: 0-89255-280-8 "A happy, middle-class childhood lived in the shadows of sweeping social change and oncoming revolutionsuch was the experience of novelist Pablo Medina. In this memoir, Medina revisits his curious double world, recalling the pre-revolutionary Cuba of his first twelve years, 1948-1960. His recollections move easily from his childhood adventures to warm remembrances of family and friends to his growing awareness of the social conflicts tha ..." |
 | | The Cigar Roller(Reprint) A Novel by Pablo Medina Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2006 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-4237-5, ISBN: 0-8021-4237-0 "Master storyteller Pablo Medina's The Cigar Roller is a radiant novel recounting the life of Cuban master cigar roller Amadeo Terra. A proud and capricious man, tobacco has been the center of Amadeo's life, the source of his passion. For his considerable talents with the leaves he had been forgiven a great number of sins. An imperious patriarch of enormous appetites, Amadeo now lies in a Florida hospital after a stroke looks back at his ..." |
 | | The Return of Felix Nogara(1st Edition) A Novel by Pablo Medina Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2002 by Persea Books ISBN-13: 978-0-89255-279-5, ISBN: 0-89255-279-4 "The dictator is dead and suddenly the exiles can return. So begins Pablo Medina's most compelling work to date, a novel set on Barata, the imaginary Caribbean island (not unlike Cuba). Sent to the United States at the age of twelve, Felix Nogara has remained attached to his native land through dissident fellow exiles and through his family legacy. Thirty-eight years later, he returns, and with a wise and sardonic cab driver as his guide ..." |
 | | The Kingdom of This World(1st Edition) A Novel (FSG Classics) by Alejo Carpentier, Pablo Medina, Edwidge Danticat Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2017 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53738-8, ISBN: 0-374-53738-0 "A masterful new translation of a haunting novel of nineteenth-century HaitiA few years after its liberation from harsh French colonial rule in 1803, Haiti endured a period of great brutality under the reign of King Henri Christophe, who was born a slave but rose to become the first black king in the Western Hemisphere. In this unnerving novel from one of Cuba’s most celebrated authors, Henri Christophe’s oppressive rule is observed thro ..." |
 | | Cubop City Blues(1st Edition) by Pablo Medina Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2012 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-1984-1, ISBN: 0-8021-1984-0 "Poet and novelist Pablo Medina’s Cubop City Blues fuses raw, passionate language and elegant lyricism to breathe life into a musically disguised New York City shaped by jazz masters, refugees, and storytellers.Our guide into Cubop City is The Storyteller, born nearly blind and shrouded in his mother’s guilt. He’s homeschooled inside his parents’ crumbling apartment with a European housekeeper, and educated through Encyclopedia Britannic ..." |
 | | The Return of Felix Nogara(1st Edition) A Novel by Pablo Medina, Pat Medina Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2000 by Persea Books ISBN-13: 978-0-89255-251-1, ISBN: 0-89255-251-4 "A major new novel of exile is offered by the author of the critically acclaimed "Marks of Birth". Set in New York, Miami, and Barata, an imaginary island in the Caribbean, the novel explores the condition of expatriation, this time from the vantage point of an exile who returns." |
 | | Poet in New York A Bilingual Edition (English and Spanish Edition) by Federico Garcia Lorca, Pablo Medina, Mark Statman, Edward Hirsch Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2007 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-4353-2, ISBN: 0-8021-4353-9 "Newly translated for the first time in ten years Federico Garcia Lorcas Poet in New York is an astonishing depiction of a tumultuous metropolis that changed the course of poetic expression in both Spain and the Americas Written during Federico Garcia Lorcas nine months as a student at Columbia University at the beginning of the Great Depression Poet in New York is widely considered one of the most important books Lorca ever produced Thi ..." |
 | | The Cigar Roller(1st Edition) A Novel by Pablo Medina Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2005 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-1792-2, ISBN: 0-8021-1792-9 "Award-winning storyteller Pablo Medina's new novel is a radiant journey through the mind of Amadeo Terra, a Cuban cigar factory worker confined in a Florida hospital after a stroke has left him paralyzed. His body no longer works, but his mind is very much alive, as is his ruthless and audacious wit. His only human contact is with the callous nurse who constantly scolds him, the orderly who barely acknowledges him, and the nun who prays ..." |
 | | The Foreigner's Song(First Edition) New and Selected Poems by Pablo Medina Paperback, 172 Pages, Published 2021 by Tiger Bark Press ISBN-13: 978-1-73290-127-8, ISBN: 1-73290-127-9 "A compliation of previously published poems along with 19 fresh works." |
 | | The Marks of Birth (Paperback) by Pablo Medina Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2003 by Persea Books ISBN-13: 978-0-89255-287-0, ISBN: 0-89255-287-5 "A fictionalized account of an exile's life in the U.S., interwoven with the history of Latin America, its dictatorships, U.S. colonialism, Cuban-American revanchism and life as a Latino immigrant in this country." |
 | | The Island Kingdom by Pablo Medina Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2015 by Hanging Loose Press ISBN-13: 978-1-934909-47-8, ISBN: 1-934909-47-5 "Poetry. "The color, grace, music and energy that fill these pages ought to harken us (again) to Medina's mastery, for a master-poet he is." Bill Zavatsky"" |
 | | Cubop City Blues by Pablo Medina 224 Pages, Published 2012 by Grove/Atlantic, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-9455-8, ISBN: 0-8021-9455-9 "Off the corner of his eye he notices a figure dressed in white looking at him. This story was going to be about her and about the small house they share on the hill. It is there where he is trying to recreate the universe in his image, ... It was as if the universe, infinite in its possibilities, kept intruding on the fiction—no, on his writerly mind—and insisted on fighting the convolutions of actuality with the artifice of linear ..." |
 | | The Cigar Roller A Novel by Pablo Medina 192 Pages, Published 2007 by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic ISBN-13: 978-1-55584-689-3, ISBN: 1-55584-689-0 "—Fabiola Santiago, The Miami Herald “Rarely are the tools of the Modernist novel used so quietly. . . . Mr. Medina's psychological novel is a mental idyll: Amadeo's enforced tranquility is no less fecund than Wordsworth's.” —Benjamin Lytal, The New York Sun “Haunting . . . Medina holds nothing back. . . . Terra's lyrical flights of memory [are] conveyed by Medina in dreamlike prose that reminds us that, yes, there is a soul in ther ..." |
 | | The Marks of Birth by Pablo Medina Published 1995 ISBN-13: 978-0-517-16541-6, ISBN: 0-517-16541-4 |
 | | Our House in the Last World(35th Edition) (35th Anniversary Edition) by Oscar Hijuelos, Pablo Medina Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2017 by Persea ISBN-13: 978-0-89255-484-3, ISBN: 0-89255-484-3 "A 35th anniversary edition of the acclaimed debut novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. With a new Foreword by Pablo Medina. Set in New York City in the 1950s and 1960s, this is the coming-of-age story of Hector Santinio, the American-born son of Cuban immigrants, who is haunted by tales of “home”--a Cuba of ancestral memory, beauty, sensuousness, and ease, a place he has never known―and by th ..." |
 | | Beyond the Frame Celebrating a Partnership in Public Education and the Arts by Heather Treseler, Lauren Alleyne, Erika Briesacher, Lawrence Buell, Gish Jen, Kirun Kapur, Megan Marshall, Pablo Medina, Lloyd Schwartz, Anthony Walton, Kristin Waters, Karl R. Wurst, Barry Maloney, Matthias Waschek Published 2022 ISBN-13: 978-0-578-30532-5, ISBN: 0-578-30532-1 "The essays offer historical, personal, and biographical perspectives on some of the most celebrated works in the Worcester Art Museum's collections as well as ways in which these works are incorporated into collegiate teaching and research ..." |
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