Books in the Carnegie Mellon University Pre series

A poet wrestles with faith and loss post-pandemic. In these poems, Peter Cooley encounters both the political realities of loss through the pandemic in New Orleans and personal loss through the deaths of family members and friends. Death is a constant in this book of elegies, but the redemptive power of representation is persistent as this poet of faith memorializes imagined and lived experiences.

"Ricardo Pau-Llosa was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1954. In 1960 his family fled the communist takeover and arrived in Chicago. In 1968, by way of Tampa, they moved to Miami. His first collection of poems, Sorting Metaphors, was selected by William Stafford for the Anhinga Prize in 1983. This was followed by Bread of the Imagined from Bilingual Press in 1992, and Cuba, the 100th title in the Carnegie Mellon University Press Poetry Series, in 1993-the first of seven of Pau-Llosa's collections from Carnegie Mellon. Additionally, he is a noted international authority on Latin American art"--