{"product_id":"the-floating-island-paperback","title":"The Floating Island - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePablo Medina\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoetry. Written in English but infused with a sense of Spanish rhythms and history, THE FLOATING ISLAND is equally an echo of Whitman, Ginsberg and Walcott. The coffee has redeemed itself by now.\/ I am awake enough to see you walking\/ down the street to your apartment\/ exhausted like a sparrow\/ after long work in the tenements. The eponymous floating island of Pablo Medina's provocative new collection of poems is partly the Cuba of the poet's childhood, partly childhood itself -- country where heart and spirit were strangers equally to loss and to irony . . . -- Carl Phillips. Medina's ARCHING INTO THE AFTERLIFE (1991, Bilingual Press) is also available from SPD.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.28 x 8.42 x 5.46 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42730031743039,"sku":"9781893996014","price":16.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/b5a4e4fcc11585d08fca4253e3195b52.webp?v=1765124555","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-floating-island-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}