Points Of Balance / Puntos De Apoyo

Cuban-born New York poet Pablo Medina's bilingual fulcros are six-line poems that, as he writes, "combine the dialectic of the sonnet with the imagistic power of the haiku... shaping language and silence into a point of balance floating in the ocean of time." These short poems, which are not translations of each other, draw us into an intellectual condition: Spanish and English, visual and theoretical, intimate and abstract, where "the thrush sings in the know-it-all woods."

PABLO MEDINA is the author of many works of poetry and prose, most recently Puntos de apoyo (poems in Spanish) and The Return of Felix Nogara (a novel), which The New York Times called "delicious, astute, and darkly funny." He teaches in the Writing Concentration at Eugene Lang College of New School University.