Luis Rechani Agrait Author

Luis Rechani Agrait (1902–1994) is one of Puerto Rico’s major dramatists of the twentieth century whose masterpiece is My Excellency. Its translation by William Carlos Williams is his debut in the Anglophone world. William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) is a major American poet/author of the twentieth century and an influential founder of literary modernism. His considerable work as a translator as well as a playwright has been largely overlooked. Jonathan Cohen is an award-winning translator of Latin American poetry and a scholar of inter-American literature.