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Antonio José Ponte was born in 1964 in Matanzas, Cuba, and studied at the University of Havana. He worked for some years as an engineer, and then as a screenwriter. In addition to writing short stories and fiction, Ponte has published prize-winning collections of poetry and essays. His work has been published in France, Germany and Spain. This is his first book to be published in the United States. Cola Franzen is the translator of over twenty books, including _Poems of Arab Andalusia, Dreams of the Abandoned Seducer_ by Alicia Borinsky and _Horses in the Air_ by Jorge Guillén (recipient of the Academy of American Poets Harold Morton Landon Translation Award 2000).