Research Catalog

Title

Yoruba from Cuba : selected poems / Nicolás Guillén ; translated by Salvador Ortiz-Carboneres.

Author

Guillén, Nicolás, 1902-1989

Publication

Leeds, UK : Peepal Tree, 2005.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Ortiz-Carboneres, Salvador.

Description

208 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

"Translator, Salvador Ortiz-Carboneres, draws attention to Guillen's pioneering embrace, more than sixty years ago, of an African identity in Cuba. His selection shows Guillen constantly returning to the theme of race and the historical legacies of slavery in both the Caribbean and the USA. But in poems such as 'Balada de los Dos Abuelos', Guillen is also seen stressing the mulatez heterogeneity of Cuban culture in drawing on African, European and other immigrant traditions." "As a life-long Marxist and anti-imperialist, Guillen celebrated the Cuban revolution, including the heroic example of Che Guevara, but he also addressed the tendency to a repressive puritanism within the ruling party in such important poems as 'Digo que yo no soy un hombre puro'."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

Guillén, Nicolás, 1902-1989 > Translations into English

Genre/Form

Translations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-205) and index.

Language (note)

• Text in English and Spanish.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Clock -- Songoro Cosongo -- Sugarcane -- West Indies Ltd -- Ballad of the Two Grandfathers -- Ballad of the Guije -- Sensemaya -- The Grandfather -- West Indies, Ltd. -- Guadeloupe, W.I. -- Cantos Para Soldados y Sones Para Turistas -- I Don't Know Why You Think -- Execution -- Free Soldier -- Espana: Poema En Cuatro Angustias -- Fourth Sorrow -- El Son Entero -- Sweat and Whip -- Son Number 6 -- Son for Antillian Children -- Poem with Children -- Elegias -- Elegy for Emmett Till -- La Paloma De Vuelo Popular -- The Wall -- Puerto Rican Song -- Rivers -- Short Grotesque Litany on the Death of Senator McCarthy -- Bars -- Song of Return -- Cities -- Kingston -- New York -- Panama -- Madrid -- Tengo -- I Have -- Can You? -- I Came on a Slave Ship ... -- It's All Right -- Governor -- Pupils -- Sones, Sonnets, Ballads and Songs -- Answer Me ... -- Ballad -- El Gran Zoo -- Announcement -- Rivers -- The Tiger -- Cyclone -- Lynch -- K K K -- La Rueda Dentada -- What Colour? -- The Bourgeoisie -- I State that I am not a Pure Man -- Che Comandante -- Guitar in D(Eath) Major -- El Diario Que a Diario -- Warnings, Messages, Public Proclamations -- European Slaves -- Sales -- Exchange -- Escape -- Act of Justice.

ISBN

190071597X (pbk.) :

OCLC

56437401

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library