Ricardo Pau-Llosa

Biography

Ricardo Pau-Llosa has published seven books of poetry. His latest is Man (Carnegie Mellon, 2014). He is also an art critic and curator. His poetry has appeared in American Poetry Review, Hudson Review, Poetry, the New England Review, Southern Review, Boston Review, and elsewhere.

See Work

POETRY / Winter 2017

Solvitur Ambulando

By Ricardo Pau-Llosa

The man used to walk four miles a day, 
two hours at first, less as he got stronger 
and thinner, to defy the sense of rules that dictates 
higher challenges as the ability climbs. Rebel 
mind in a rebel body. Not even Plato’s 

POETRY / Winter 2017

Husserlian Meditation

By Ricardo Pau-Llosa

The squirrels deny themselves from front and back 
and only word into view from the sides when 
their outline rejects the coup of geometry. 
From the south we delight in the polar symmetry 
of their foggy tails cupped by rounded hinds. 

POETRY / Spring 2010

Dos Gardenias Para Ti

By Ricardo Pau-Llosa
POETRY / Winter 2009

Cuba, Where Art Thou?

By Ricardo Pau-Llosa

What if it were not
such a tragedy
to outlive
one’s nation,

Winter 1998

Juan Carlos Formell

By Ricardo Pau-Llosa
Autumn 1999

Arche

By Ricardo Pau-Llosa
Autumn 1999

Noah

By Ricardo Pau-Llosa
Winter 1998

Vereda Tropical

By Ricardo Pau-Llosa