Research Catalog

Title

Man-making words : selected poems of Nicolás Guillén / translated, annotated, with an introduction by Roberto Márquez and David Arthur McMurray.

Author

Guillén, Nicolás, 1902-1989

Publication

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2003.

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Additional Authors

• Márquez, Robert
• McMurray, David Arthur

Description

xlviii, 217 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"The Cuban poet Nicolas Guillen, who was born in the eastern province of Camaguey in 1902, died in 1989. This new edition of his selected poems, reissued thirty years after its original publication, includes an extensive new introductory essay by Roberto Marquez, one of the original translators and a leading authority on Caribbean and Latin American literature and culture."--BOOK JACKET.

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections. English & Spanish

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

Guillén, Nicolás, 1902-1989 > Translations into English

Genre/Form

Translations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Exile -- Rivers -- Bars -- Cities -- Carioca Song -- Brazil -- Copacabana -- Little Ballad of Plovdiv -- In the Winter in Paris -- Neighborhood House -- Soviet Union -- The Cosmonaut -- Sputnik 57 -- Chinese Songs -- Wu Sang-Keui -- Paul Eluard -- My Little Woman -- Ovenstone -- Ana Maria -- Sports -- Small Ode to a Black Cuban Boxer -- What Color? -- Governor -- Schoolwork -- Little Rock -- Mau-Maus -- Heat -- Ancestry -- A Black Man Sings in New York City -- Ballad of the two Grandfathers -- Son for Antillean Children -- My Last Name -- Cuban Elegy -- Elegy for Emmitt Till -- Elegy for Jacques Roumain -- Elegy for Camaguey -- Elegy for Jesus Menendez -- Execution -- Words in the Tropics

ISBN

1558494103 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003005061

OCLC

• 51848500
• SCSB-12208823

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library