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Cluster index: Frank Baez

Frank Báez: Poemas en el original en español.

Frank Báez: ‘Llegar a los treinta gordo y con las posibilidades
de disfrazarte de Santa Claus en Navidad.
Tomando pastillas. Jugando la lotería.
Comprando productos bajos en calorías.
Empeñando prendas, licuadoras, anillos. ‘

Frank Báez: New poems.

Hoyt Rogers: Acknowledged as one of the Dominican Republic’s most important younger poets and short-story writers, Frank Baez has won the Book Fair First Prize for Short Stories in 2006 and the National Poetry Prize Salomé Ureña in 2009. He has published five books, including Jarrón y Otros Poemas (Vase and Other Poems), Postales (Postcards) and En Granada no duerme nadie (In Grenada Nobody’s Sleeping). As editor and translator for the online poetry review, Ping Pong, he has published scores of poets from Latin America, North America, and Europe.

Two Dominican poets.

 Selections from  El HOMBRECITO Two Dominican Poets: Frank Báez and Homero Pumarol Selected, Translated, and Introduced by Hoyt Rogers. FRANK BÁEZ AND Homero Pumarol might both be described as homegrown versions of Junot Diaz: native Dominican authors rather than a son of the diaspora like Diaz, but with the same hip originality and with-it verve. […]