Poet and art critic Ricardo Pau-Llosa on Latin American culture, the Cuban experience, food as art - a podcast by DADEMAG.com

Ricardo Ricardo Pau-Llosa is a poet and art critic whose life's work has centered on Cuba and Latin American art. When his family fled Cuba in 1960 after Fidel Castro's co, he ended up in Chicago, spending years there before heading south to Miami.

From Ricardo's own website bio: "His first book of poetry, Sorting Metaphors (Anhinga Press, 1983), won the first national Anhinga Prize,[citation needed]. He published a second book of poetry in Bread of the Imagined (Bilingual Press, 1992). His third book of poems, Cuba (Carnegie Mellon U Press, 1993), was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His latest collections are Mastery Impulse (2003) and Parable Hunter (2008), both from Carnegie Mellon."

Over a career in the arts, Ricardo has amassed a stunning collection of (mostly) Latin American paintings, sculptures and other works. Some of it is seen in the video of this interview, which was recorded at Ricardo's home in Miami.

In this conversation with chef Michael Beltran, the two discuss art, craft, how they apply (or can apply) to food, Latin American culture, philosophy, politics, and Ricardo's experiences as a Cuban exile whose heterodox politics have put him at odds with views of his native country and its history that tend to hold sway in his field.

This interview is also available on Pan Con Podcast via Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Soundcloud, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Listen to the whole conversation here:
http://www.dademag.com/features/2020/8/11/pan-con-podcast-sandra-walimaki-counter-culture-coffee

For more about Ricardo Pau-Llosa:
http://www.pau-llosa.com/

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