Word: heberto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anti- Communism. Sontag was stunned by the response, especially the assumption that her rejection of Communism was a recent development or that it signaled a sharp move rightward on her part. As early as 1971, she points out, she was protesting Cuba's imprisonment of writers like the poet Heberto Padilla, now a friend living in the U.S. She also insists that her views are not the result of the close friendships she has formed with writers in exile from Communism, including Czeslaw Milosz of Poland and Joseph Brodsky of the Soviet Union, both Nobel laureates. But their situation...
...Florida, Flo-rree-da," says Heberto Padilla, pronouncing the familiar word with a flourish, as if it were a lover's name. "Ponce de Leon christened it, and in Coral Gables the streets have Spanish names. So we deserve the place. Whenever we had trouble in Havana, we went to Miami, and Miami is very, very important for us. We don't feel like immigrants." Padilla certainly does not. Cuba's best and most famous poet now talks as if he could be the proud father of all his 726,000 countrymen residing in South Florida...
HEROES ARE GRAZING IN MY GARDEN by Heberto Padilla Translated by Andrew Hurley Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 250 pages...
...Poet Heberto Padilla, who had remained in Cuba after most of his family had fled, was suddenly imprisoned, committed to solitary confinement and forced to confess to consorting with imperialists. Condemned to virtual house arrest, Padilla continued working as a translator until, through American intercession, he was allowed to seek exile in the U.S. in 1980. He smuggled out the only unconfiscated copy of this manuscript under a pile of letters in his carry...
...bearing traces of makeup, solemnly file it in his dossier. Taking a page from A Clockwork Orange, officials would show gay men nude photos, administering drugs to make them ill when the subjects were male. The prisoners, naturally, learned to register false enthusiasm for female nudes, according to Poet Heberto Padilla, who insists that "manly" homosexuality was rampant in the regime. One brave and touching transvestite, named...