Padilla, Heberto

New York. 1990. January 1990. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0374260869. Translated from the Spanish by Alexander Coleman. 247 pages. hardcover. Jacket photograph (c) 1990 by Lee Lockwood/Black Star. Author photograph (c) 1990 by Vasco Szinetar. keywords: Literature Translated Autobiography Cuba Latin America Caribbean. FROM THE PUBLISHER - HEBERTO PADILLA, Cuba's foremost living poet as well as one of the finest twentieth-century writers in the Spanish language, is a man whose personal and political destiny has been viewed as a cautionary tale of the Cuba of Fidel Castro. Many myths have been created around Padilla-he has been extravagantly admired and bitterly vilified - but, even after his immigration to the United States in 1980, the poet has guarded his silence. Now, in SELF-PORTRAIT OF THE OTHER, his long- awaited autobiography, Padilla breaks that silence, telling the story of his life and times, in his own words and, artistically and intellectually, on his own terms. SELF-PORTRAIT OF THE OTHER is both a poet's prose and a memoir of Castro's Cuba in which the political realities of that regime and the personalities of the artists who flocked from all over the world to support it are depicted. inventory #14847 ISBN: 0374260869.