AMERIE'S BOOK CLUB May 2024 | Have You Been Long Enough at Table by Leslie Sainz

In this gorgeous, tense, and at times morbid, poetry collection, Leslie Sainz dissects the Cuban American experience from a multitude of angles: the push-pull between the United States and the Republic of Cuba; the relationships that, like tides, pull us in and push us away; food as metaphor for identity and relationships. Underlying the quiet beauty of the narrator’s observations: the low hum of unease. The poems within the pages of Have You Been Long Enough at Table have enough layers to keep a reader busy for days, long after putting down the book.

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ABOUT LESLIE SAINZ
LESLIE SAINZ is the author of Have You Been Long Enough at Table (Tin House, 2023), winner of the 2024 Audre Lorde Award and a finalist for the Vermont Book Award. The daughter of Cuban exiles, her work has appeared in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, the Yale Review, Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. A three-time National Poetry Series finalist, she’s received fellowships, scholarships, and honors from the National Endowment for the Arts, CantoMundo, the Miami Writers Institute, the Adroit Journal, and the Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts at Bucknell University. Originally from Miami, she lives in Vermont and works as the managing editor of New England Review.

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