despegue / departure in Bloomington, MN

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.
is an original, inventive and unflinching examination of what it means to leave, to be left behind, and of our ability to stay.