Airborne with the Day
(El Día Empieza a Volar)
By Moisés WodnickiEdited by Luis F. González-Cruz, Julio Matas and Gena Wodnicki
ISBN: 0-935480-85-4
Price: $20.00
Pages: 240
Moisés Wodnicki (1928-1992) was born in Poland. In 1921, his family, fleeing anti-semitism, emigrated to Cuba, where he received his formal education. He published a book of short stories, Cazador conmovido (Thrilled Hunter) in Havana in 1952; the rest of his literary work was to remain unpublished until now. Airborne with the Day contains a wide selection of his poetry and prose, as well as some of his drawings. Moisés Wodnicki's poetic "voyage" is undertaken in the tradition of poet-philosophers from Lucretius to Antonio Mackadoas a quest for essential truths and a pondering of man's finality, but also as an affirmation of the joys of human existence, love, the continuity of the generations, the experience of art in its different forms, and the warmth of family and friendship.