[11/01/26] Cruz, Oscar: Philo(zoo)phical Notes

Ugly Duckling Presse, chapbook

Translated by Miguel Coronado

Publication Date: November 1, 2026

Publisher Marketing:

Oscar Cruz's Philo(zoo)phical Notes, translated by Miguel Coronado, is a witty and biting poetic animalscape of Cuban life. This bilingual chapbook explores how poets, like all of us, are animals, and how animals can teach us things about joy, desire, insolence, cruelty, suffering, and failure. Far from the so-called establishment of Havana, Cruz isn't afraid of a poetry that laughs at itself or lingers in the bloody, ugly, and shit-covered.