El libro de mis lamentaciones

My Book of Lamentations: Hardship in the Heart of Cuba is a poetry collection in which everyday life becomes revelation. Home, exhaustion, absence, motherhood from afar, faith wrestling with doubt, irony that refuses to yield. Evangelina Núñez Izaguirre writes with unadorned intimacy. Her short, sharp lines name what sometimes goes unsaid: domestic life running aground, loneliness closing in, losses that leave a muted music in the body.

The Cuba of these pages is deeply felt and known from within, marked by hardship but also lit by small things. A gesture, a flower, a memory returning like a psalm. Each poem is a modern lamentation, a way not of surrendering but of making sense of oneself, turning pain into words and words into a place to breathe.

If you're drawn to contemporary poetry with genuine feeling, an eye for social realities without sermonising, and a mature woman's voice that brings together tenderness, lucidity and courage, this is a book for you. It will keep you quiet company and leave you thinking long after you've closed it.