Ricardo Pau-Llosa was born in Cuba in 1954, and grew up in the U.S.; he lives in Miami. He writes poetry and short fiction. Pau-Llosa is also an accomplished art critic and curator.

Other poems by Ricardo Pau-Llosa in Verse Daily:
June 20, 2017:   "Needle" "A lost man might pour his jug..."
December 3, 2015:   "Rings" "Distance gels the ghostly into fictions..."
April 7, 2015:   "Money" "The day I need pockets, I will refuse..."
July 1, 2014:   "Give-Us-This-Day Man" "Every morning breakfast became..."
February 11, 2013:   "Bethany Man" "From afar it looks like the bus is stranded..."
July 29, 2011:   "Giant Slayer Man" "Rifling brochures..."
January 27, 2007:   "Semilla" " As with galaxies, with flowers..."

Books by Ricardo Pau-Llosa:

Other poems on the web by Ricardo Pau-Llosa:
"View from My Mother's Last Hospital Room"
"Bishop (of air)"
"Squandered Moons"
"Luxury"
"Monstrance Man"
"Priam"
"Flight to L.A."
"Abacus"
"Husserlian Meditation: Sunday Rain"

Ricardo Pau-Llosa's Website.

Ricardo Pau-Llosa according to Wikipedia.

About The Turning:

"The Turning is a dazzling display of lush verse, lucid parables and aesthetic dignity. Working at the crossroads of Baroque language (Donne, Quevedo) and Modernist imagination (Stevens, Borges), Pau-Llosa is equally at ease in ekphrastic awe as in philosophical reflection. Memory, dream and time in poems of such immediacy, are reborn in a new language."
—Enrico Mario Santi

"Pau-Llosa has lost not one country but two, and the only reasonable thing to do when so unmoored is to vigorously adopt the country of art. Poetic heir to Stevens and Rilke, in The Turning, Pau-Llosa turns toward observation, seeing itself, for salvation and invites us to savor his insights and wondrously wrought words."
—Cathryn Hankla