Footwork: Selected Poems

Author: Severo Sarduy

Translator: David Francis

Publisher: Circumference Books (2021)

Cuban writer Severo Sarduy was one of the most groundbreaking Latin American literary figures of the twentieth century. His poems are acrobatic in content and form, innovative, and also part of a deep lineage and web of connection. David Francis translated the poems from Spanish into a gripping English. He writes, Footwork is "a body of work that sings on its own, that celebrates the carnal life, the sensual experiences of dance, of painting, food, music, and sexual pleasure, but that also recognizes—in these pleasures—the imminence of one's passing."