La carrera / The Race by [Red Hydra Press] Omar Pérez - 2018.: Translated by Kristin Dykstra / Linocuts by Ramón Vargas

Tuscaloosa, Alabama:: Red Hydra Press,, 2018.. Edition of 62. 6.25 x 9"; 46 pages. Linocuts. Text in Scala Pro type. Letterpress printed on Mohawk 100 lb. Text. Printed in English and Spanish. Bound in cloth over boards. Book design and printing by Steve Miller. Signed by the artist, the poet, and printer. Numbered. Signed bookmark designed by the artist laid in. Colophon: "This work is yet another example of a collaboration between Cuban poet, Omar Pérez, and his translator, Kristin Dykstra, the copyright holders. Dykstra has revealed, in English, the work of many fascinating Cuban writers. Havana-based artist Ramón Vargas has created a world of original linocuts in response to these words."  Omar Pérez www.poetryfoundation.org (08/30/18): "The son of revolutionary Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, poet, editor, and translator Omar Pérez was born and raised in Havana. He earned a degree in English at the University of Havana and studied Italian at the Universitá per Straniere di Siena. He has worked as a journalist for El Caimán Barbudo, and as an editor for the magazine La naranja dulce. A former member of the Cuban intellectual group Paideia, he edited the poetry magazine Mantis from 1994 to 1996. "Ordained as a Zen Buddhist monk, Pérez composes poems that engage languages, Zen, and political and cultural transcendence." Kristin Dykstra www.kdystra.net (8.30.18): " Kristin Dykstra is a writer, literary translator, editor and scholar. She writes about people, places, and culture, with a special interest in motions and intersections amongst Americas. … She is Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Saint Michael's College in Vermont." Ramon Vargas www.cuba.ua.edu (8.30.18): "Ramon Vargas Artiz was born August 22, 1971. He is from the village Santiago de las Vegas, located in Boyeros, Havana, and he comes from a working-class family. He studied at the Elementary School of Art in Havana and then the provincial San Alejandro School of Arts where he graduated with a specialty in engraving. He subsequently became an independent creator and has been a professor of drawing and printmaking for more than 15 years. ... He is a member of the Experimental Workshop of Graphics in Havana."