INTRODUCTION IN TWO VOICES * After the Bridges--Ruth Behar * Our Memories, Ourselves--Lucía M. Suárez * PART I: EN LA MALETA: WITH A SUITCASE IN OUR HANDS * Wherever That May Be--Richard Blanco * I Will Die in Paris in the Sudden Rain...--Verónica Pérez Konina * Exile and Bougainvillea--José Kozer * The Land Is in Me--Damaris Calderón * Notes on the Movement of Trains in Germany--Carlos Aguilera Chang * Easter Sunday and Lake Waban: Two Poems--Nancy Morejón * Avon Calling--Nely Galán * PART II: IDLAS: AFTER EVERYONE HAS LEFT * They Took Me to the Movies While My Mother Packed: Her Bag and other poems--Rolando Estévez * Other Roads to Santiago and other poems--Laura Ruiz * "That's My Theme: The Human Adventure." An Interview with Ena Lucía Portela--Iraida López * From Havana to Mexico City: Generation, Diaspora, and Borderland--Rafael Rojas * Josefina the Traveler: Ceremony for a Desperate Actress (monologue)--Abilio Estévez * Letter to Enrique Saínz (poem)--Jorge Luis Arcos * PART III: REGRESOS: WHEN WE RETURN * In the Middle of Nowhere--Nara Araújo * The Woman Who Wanted Bridges--Ruth Behar * Piedra Jaimanitas--Rosa Lowinger * Going Home Via Africa and Cayo Hueso--Alan West-Durán * Writing from Babylon--Pedro Pérez Sarduy * The Convergence of Time: Being Cuban in the Present Tense--María de los Angeles Torres * PART IV: MÁS ALLÁ DE CUBA: NOW AND THEN WE TRY TO FORGET ABOUT GEOGRAPHY * Citizen of a Certain World--Karla Suárez * My Repeating Island--Gustavo Pérez Firmat * A Cuban Dorothy--Eliana Rivero * Becoming Cuba-Rican--Jorge Duany * Crossing Borders: Notes on Forgetting--Mabel Cuesta * Cuba in my Heart: A Geo-Emotional Condition--Lucía M. Suárez * PART V: ESPERANDO: TO WAIT IS A CUBAN CONDITION * Waiting--Ruth Behar * Gerundios de la Espera--Rolando Estévez