The Cuban poet Legna Rodríguez Iglesias was born in Camagüey in central Cuba in 1984 and currently lives in Miami, Florida. As well as poetry she has written theatre, short stories, children’s books and a novel. Her poetry has been translated into Portuguese, German, Italian and English.
The DUAL POETRY PODCAST is focusing on her work for the next few weeks as we release a free online audio archive of poems from her PTC collection ‘A little body are many parts’.
This week we are bringing you two poems ‘The Day I’ and ‘Red Room’ both originally published in her 2012 Spanish language collection The Perfect Moment.
‘A little body are many parts’ an overview of poems from Legna Rodríguez Iglesias’ career translated by Serafina Vick and Abigale Parry has been shortlisted for the first-ever Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry.
Get our Derek Walcott Poetry Prize Shortlist Bundle for just £15.
