Have You Been Long Enough at Table

Taking its title from Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, Leslie Sainz's Have You Been Long Enough at Table explores the personal and historical tragedies of the Cuban American experience through a distinctly feminine lens. Formally diverse with echoes of Spanish throughout, this debut collection critiques power and patriarchy as weaponized by the governments of the United States and the Republic of Cuba. In investigating the realities of displacement and inherited exile, Sainz honors her imagined past, present, and future as a result of the "revolution within the revolution"--the emancipation of Cuban women.

Through lyric and associative meditations, Sainz anatomizes the unique grief of immigrant daughters, as her speakers discover how family can be a microcosm of the very violence that displaced them. What emerges is a spiritual blueprint for disinheritance, radical self-determination, and the nuanced examinations of myth, ritual, and resistance.


Author: Leslie Sainz
Publisher: Tin House Books
Published: 09/26/2023
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.15w x 0.06d
ISBN13: 9781959030119
ISBN10: 1959030116
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | Hispanic & Latino
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Political & Protest
- Poetry | Women Authors