Falling Landscape

by Silvia Curbelo

Poetry. "Silvia Curbelo's poetry is accomplished, daring, full of energy and intelligence; it is the generous manifestation of an authentic and original gift. Her poems embody imaginative honesty and a free-ranging and fresh sensibility. I think they should be welcomed and read with care."--W.S. Merwin Full of feathers and stone, silence and song, Falling Landscape appears to have been crafted from "the vestige of some/elemental language." With a knack for disguising wisdom as plain-spoken observation, Curbelo's poems are infused with insight the way sunlight fills a quiet room. The lyric voice is rarely this accessible, this unwavering, this pure."  -- Campbell McGrath

Genres: Poetry

88 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2015

About the author

Born in Matanzas, Cuba, poet Silvia Curbelo emigrated to the United States with her parents as a child. Her poems couple the personal with the elemental, overlaying collective and individual paths. Her poetry collections include Falling Landscape (Anhinga Press, 2015), Ambush (Main Street Rag, 2004) The Secret History of Water (Anhinga Press, 1997) and The Geography of Leaving (Silverfish Review Press, 1991). Her work has also appeared in numerous anthologies, including The Body Electric: America’s Best Poetry from the American Poetry Review (2000), Snakebird: Thirty Years of Anhinga Poets (2004), Helen Vendler's Poems, Poets, Poetry (2009) and the Norton Anthology of Latino Literature (2011).

Curbelo has served as the editor of Organica Quarterly and is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Florida Arts Council, the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, the Cintas Foundation, the Seaside Foundation, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts, as well as Mid-American Review’s James Wright Award and American Poetry Review’s Jessica Nobel Maxwell Memorial Prize. She lives in Tampa.

Reviews

[Gerry LaFemina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Strong book of mostly lyric poems, Falling Landscape has some startling images and lovely moments of language.