Virgil Suárez Biography
Virgil Suárez (born 1962, Havana, Cuba) is a poet and novelist. He is a professor of English at Florida State University. He is one of the leading writers in the Cuban American community, known for his novels including Latin Jazz and Going Under. He has also reviewed books for The Los Angeles Times, The Miami Herald, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Tallahassee Democrat.
He spent four years in Spain, 1970-1974. He moved to the U.S. in 1974. He went to high school in Los Angeles, California. He received a BA from California State University, Long Beach. He received an MFA from Louisiana State University (1987) while studying under Vance Bourjaily. He studied under Sir Angus Wilson and Robert Houston for a year at the University of Arizona.
In Los Angeles I grew up watching The Three Stooges,
The Little Rascals, Speed Racer, and the Godzilla movies,
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grew larger next to the brick wall
by our house in Havana,
this loose-leafed tree
that gave neither shade
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What is found in mote of dust a float in shaft
of light coming through an abandoned house's
window? A cracked dirty floor, a woman
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I am dreaming again
of breasts. Mountainous,
slick with morning dew breasts.
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