despegue / departure

Víctor Rodríguez Núñez's prize-winning despegue / departure is a book about poetry place and belonging. Its rich challenging and subversive sonnets reveal the complexities and possibilities of Cuban contemporary poetry to a new English-language audience. Rodríguez Núñez speaks to a global generation of exiles and those whose hearts remain forever elsewhere those who have found another home. despegue / departure is an original inventive and unflinching examination of what it means to leave to be left behind and of our ability to stay.