Los Versos de la Memoria (Spanish-English Edition) La poes a como saga, como recuento de los avatares del destino de un pueblo y de una raza, es la feliz propuesta que nos hace el libro Los Versos de la Memoria, de Reynaldo Fern ndez Pav n. Hac a tiempo que en la poes a cubana no aparec a una voz po tica alta, de canto sostenido: Gast n Baquero, Nicol s Guill n, Eliseo Diego pero que, adem s, poetice desde esa dimensi n de la experiencia hist rica la de "gente color ladera" en el mundo y en Cuba. Este poeta dialoga o nos habla (con o desde) un sujeto que es por momentos y al un sono mujer- isla, pa s-destino, universo y templo. Nos conduce as desde lo general-hist rico hasta las evocaciones de las experiencias particulares de la familia, de sus m s (nuestros) cercanos ancestros, hasta que aparece el mundo m s ntimo de hijos, amores, viajes, proverbios. En Los Versos de la Memoria, el poder ontol gico del verbo transita de la cosmogon a er tica, a la novela hist rica. El poeta siempre le habla a (o de) una mujer: isla, amante, vida, traves a. Ha llegado un nuevo poeta alto a la poes a. Esc chenle. The Verses of Memory Poetry as a judgment, a summary of the vicissitudes and destination of a nation and a race, is what the book The Verses of Memory by Reynaldo Fern ndez Pav n offers its readers. It has been quite some time since we have had such high poetic voice in Cuban poetry, such as Gast n Baquero, Nicol s Guill n, and Eliseo Diego, not to mention a poet who writes his verses from the dimension of the historical experience of "hillside colored people" in the world and in Cuba. The poet speaks to us with or through a subject that is simultaneously woman-island, destination-country, universe and temple. It leads us from the general-historical to the evocations of the particular experiences of the family, of his (our) near ancestors, until the moment his intimate world, children, love, travel, and proverbs, appears. In The Verses of Memory, the ontological power of the verb moves from the erotic cosmogony to the historical novel. The poet always speaks to or from a woman-island, lovers, life, and journey. A new great poet has arrived. Listen