The Infinite Loop / Lazo Infinito, El: (Paz Prize for Poetry)

A wonderful, bilingual collection from the latest winner of the Paz Prize for Poetry, granted by the National Poetry Series, that explores the interconnection between pain, love, and hope. Oneyda González's astounding winning entry of the Paz Prize for Poetry is a searching and yearning triumph of hope over pain--through love. It is no small coincidence that González and Paz are linked in this publication, since the spiritual experience the latter lived and observed in India have accompanied González for many years, through her own curious search of the invisible that culminated in The Infinite Loop / El Lazo Infinito. In this bilingual collection, pain and love combine in a self-annihilating matter-against-energy reaction that eventually amounts to a dynamic and deliberate formula for understanding hope. The Infinite Loop exists in the most fiery flames of friction where the personal will to survive--to hope to survive--is forged. González's book was selected by judge Lourdes Vázquez, who says of his selection: "There was strong competition, but El lazo infinito stands out for its unique inner depth. In a kind of introspective scenario--a movie theater--a poem begins the rite and as a voice, an 'I' (that personal identity) in continuous dialogue with her inner voice. That never-ending reflection creates a universe of revelations, desires, and knowledge, and its course diverge, intermingle, and grow like the stems of a plant."

About the Author :
Oneyda González was born in Camagüey, Cuba. She has previously published the poetry collections La ciudad promisoria and El camino de Bárbara. Her writing was also included in the anthologies Mujer adentro and Catedral sumergida. In 2003 she published a book of narratives Las cinco y una noches, and coordinated the compilation Escrito sobre un rostro, about Severo Sarduy, to whom she returned to write about in Seres en el borde. Polvo de alas. El guión cinematográfico en Cuba brings together her interviews with critics, directors, and screenwriters of Cuban cinema. In 2010, Cuentos claros was published while she was working on the documentary project Severo Secreto, which was awarded a Friends of Princeton University Library Research Grant in 2015. Her most recent publication is Una biografía coral sobre Severo Sarduy. González has a master's degree in Latin American culture.