Alan West-Duran is a poet, critic, translator, and essayist born in Cuba and raised in Puerto Rico. He is a professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Northeastern University.
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Alan West-Duran is a poet, critic, translator, and essayist born in Cuba and raised in Puerto Rico. He is a professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Northeastern University.
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