Poetic Asylum: Poems Written in Canada 1968-1990

In the years since the publication of his first novel in 1963, Jes 's L pez-Pacheco's work as a poet, novelist and playwright has been acclaimed by readers and critics in Spain and the Hispanic world. Although he has, since 1968, been living, writing and teaching in Canada, Poetic Asylum is the first collection of his poems to be published in English. All the poems included here were written in Canada, and many reflect the experience of exile. With their grace and play, their fierce and affirmative grip on primary issues, their fresh views on Canadian experience as well as hatred of oppression, they testify to the hardihood of the human spirit and imagination.