Creator Bio
José Kozer
b. 1940
Cuban-born José Kozer, the son of Jewish immigrants from Poland and Czechoslovakia, came to the United States in 1960. He is professor emeritus of Spanish and Latin American literature at Queens College of the City University of New York. A leading Latin American poet, several of his works have been published in bilingual editions. Kozer received the Julio Tovar Poetry Prize in 1974 and the Pablo Neruda Ibero-American Poetry Prize in 2013.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Grandfather Is Facing Death
Not as if it were an accident,
not as if he were leaving Prague and coming to Havana,
eight years later bringing Mama,
to put her behind the cash register,
instill certain principles,
give her little…
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Gaudeamus
[…] In my confusion
I didn’t know how to answer my detractors, those
who brand me
a poseur because I pronounce the c in the Castilian manner or I say fellow instead of guy (I love)
miscegenations
(pe…