Elizabeth Mirabal is an award-winning writer from Havana, Cuba. She is the author of two novels: La isla de las mujeres tristes (2014), which won the Ibero-American Verbum Award, and La belleza de la inutilidad (2020). Her poetry book, Herbarium (2021), has been recently translated into English and published by Valparaíso Editions USA. Her writing encompasses fiction and non-fiction. She co-authored two books about Guillermo Cabrera Infante: Sobre los pasos del cronista,which won the Cuban Literary Criticism Award, and Buscando a Caín (2012). She also co-authored Hablar de Guillermo Rosales (2013), Tiempo de escuchar (2011), and Chakras: Historias de la Cuba dispersa (2014). Mirabal’s other honors and awards include the Tibor Wlassics Dante Prize, the Frederick W. Beinecke Fellowship, Del Greco Annual Essay Prize, and “Enrique José Varona” Award for Artistic-Literary Essay. Among the journals she has contributed to in Spain, Argentina, the United States, Mexico, and Cuba are Poéticas, República de las Letras, Recial, Cuban Studies, Intervenxions, Iowa Literaria, NACLA, and Variopinto. Her work has also appeared in several anthologies, including Mujeres y emancipación de la América Latina y el Caribe en los siglos XIX y XX (2013), Añoranzas/Yearnings: Poesía femenina de la diáspora cubana (1990-2021), and Los pintores escriben (2012). Mirabal is currently a doctoral student in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the University of Virginia. For a complete list of her publications, see https://www.elizabethmirabal.com/bio.html
In this Herbarium, Elizabeth Mirabal warns us several times that she is not moved by any scientificpretension, qualifying her work as random and careless, which certainly contradicts herknowledge of the flowers, trees, and herbs that populate her book. On the one hand, the rigorwith which she describes the qualities of certain plants is not lost on an...
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