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Antidote Presents: The Cuban Comedy A Book Launch with Pablo Medina

Jul
26
Antidote Presents: The Cuban Comedy A Book Launch with Pablo Medina
What becomes of aspirations within a landscape or circumstance that severs an individual from their ambitions? What happens when a place forces one to make the decision to cast off these things? Join us on Friday, July 26 as Pablo Medina invites us to explore these questions while exploring the isolated village of Piedra Negra in his latest book, The Cuban Comedy. Piedra Negra is an isolated village, whose citizens consist mainly of soldiers injured in the revolution that pass the time drinking a firewater so intense all hallucinate, and most never recover. The firewater distiller's daughter Elena longs to be a poet, and when she wins a national poetry contest, Elena leaves Piedra Negra, and her family, behind for Havana. There she encounters a population adjusting to a new way of life, post-revolution. Come find out more and become enchanted by this novel laced with poetry, political satire, and magical realism at 7 p.m. at Antidote in Putney, VT! Click here to read more about the book. PABLO MEDINA is the author of eight books of poetry including The Island Kingdom (Hanging Loose, 2015), four books of poetry in translation including The Weight of the Island: Selected Poems by Virgilio Piñera (Diálogos Press, 2015), five novels including The Cuban Comedy (Unnamed Press, forthcoming July 2019), and a memoir Exiled Memories: A Cuban Childhood (Persea Books, 2002). He teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Emerson College in Boston.
Date and Time
July 26, 2019 @ 7:00 pm
Location
Antidote Books
120 Main Street
Putney
VT 05346
Contact
Antidote Books
(802) 387-2260
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What becomes of aspirations within a landscape or circumstance that severs an individual from their ambitions? What happens when a place forces one to make the decision to cast off these things?

Join us on Friday, July 26 as Pablo Medina invites us to explore these questions while exploring the isolated village of Piedra Negra in his latest book, The Cuban Comedy. Piedra Negra is an isolated village, whose citizens consist mainly of soldiers injured in the revolution that pass the time drinking a firewater so intense all hallucinate, and most never recover. The firewater distiller’s daughter Elena longs to be a poet, and when she wins a national poetry contest, Elena leaves Piedra Negra, and her family, behind for Havana. There she encounters a population adjusting to a new way of life, post-revolution. Come find out more and become enchanted by this novel laced with poetry, political satire, and magical realism at 7 p.m. at Antidote in Putney, VT! Click here to read more about the book.

PABLO MEDINA is the author of eight books of poetry including The Island Kingdom (Hanging Loose, 2015), four books of poetry in translation including The Weight of the Island: Selected Poems by Virgilio Piñera (Diálogos Press, 2015), five novels including The Cuban Comedy (Unnamed Press, forthcoming July 2019), and a memoir Exiled Memories: A Cuban Childhood (Persea Books, 2002). He teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Emerson College in Boston.

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