Breach of Trust/Abuso de confianza

"Breach of Trust is a book of poetry by one of the most extraordinary Cuban poets of the twentieth century that begs to be studied by students of Latin American and Caribbean literature, poetry, and translation, as well as by writers and readers of global literature. Ángel Escobar is a poet’s and philosopher’s poet, whose every turn of phrase is as intensely maneuvered in Kristin Dykstra’s translation as it is in the original writing. Dykstra successfully translates the anguish, solitude, and pain involved in Escobar’s unraveling of the margins of experience. What we come to understand is a pervasive mood of both disconnection and connection, not through formal equivalence, but rather through a dynamic one.”
 —Jacqueline Loss, author of Dreaming in Russian: The Cuban Soviet and Cosmopolitanisms and Latin America: Against the Destiny of Place

"The complexities of Escobar's poetry are typical of the best authors from his generation in Cuba; a generation that grew up with the revolution, often benefiting from the opportunities it provided, as Escobar himself did. . . . Escobar was lost to this world too soon (in 1997 he committed suicide by jumping off a building). Thankfully this collection keeps his poetry alive, both in Spanish and English."
—The Kenyon Review