"Aqu en el Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, nos es motivo de gran honor, a travs de nuestra Serie Malunga, poder aprovechar la oportunidad para rendir homenaje al gran poeta Jess Cos Causse (1945- 2007), con una primera edicin globalizante de su poesa, dispersa o repartida como ha estado en varias antologas pequeas entre 1970 y 2007. Con sta, ofrecemos a los que se entusiasman por su obra y al pblico lector dentro y fuera de Cuba una coleccin del que fuera no slo poeta, sino tambin dramaturgo, antologista, periodista y diplomtico. Aunque s cabe enfatizar que, como queda constatado a menudo en sus versos, en los varios aspectos de su quehacer y su trayectoria vitales, es la poesa y aquella postura filosfica estetizante ante la vida la que ms lo define." Jerome Branche, ed. ~ "Here at the International Institue of Iberoamerican Literature, it is a great honor for us, through our Malunga Series, to be able to take the opportunity to pay homage to the great poet Jess Cos Causse (1945-2007), with a first global edition of his poetry, as it has been so far spread or distributed in various small anthologies between 1970 and 2007. With this, we offer those who are enthusiastic about his work and readers inside and outside Cuba, a collection of works by not only a poet, but also a playwright, anthologist, journalist and diplomat. It is however worth emphasizing that it is his poetry and his aestheticizing philosophical position towards life that most define him, as is often confirmed in his verses, in the various aspects of his life work and career." Jerome Branche, ed.