Cleverly organized by musical rhythm, novelist Garcia includes stories, poems and literary excerpts in her wide-ranging anthology, for which she also provides an introduction. It includes the familiar (an excerpt from Reinaldo Arenas's memoir), classic (the eighth chapter of Lezama Lima's influential 1966 novel Paradiso) and inspired essays. The collection is also available in a Spanish-language edition.  (CBA76, $14.00)