Description
Foreigner's Song exhibits the best work of a master who has for more than forty years been writing poems whose lyrical delicacy belies a tensile intellectual and imaginative strength. Often characterized as a poet of exile, his capacity to transform the poetry of diverse cultures and languages into a single original voice of personal and intimate revelation is unmatched. His images are deep and true, his signature unmistakable, whether he is writing about New Jersey or the Caribbean. No poet, not even Neruda, makes temporal and metaphorical leaps seem so effortless. And he always does more than one thing. He is a poet of both style and substance, a poet of Eros, but also the poet of food, chopped liver and tuna fish, of the memorable phrase, and the striking revelation. Pablo Medina is a poet I need. He lays it all on the table, the strangeness with the beauty, and never a doubt what he means. Rodney Jones, author of Village Prodigies
