{"product_id":"yoruba-from-cuba-nicolzas-guillzsn-9781900715973","title":"Yoruba from Cuba: Selected Poems of Nicolás Guillén","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn calling this collection \u003ci\u003eYoruba from Cuba\u003c\/i\u003e, a phrase from the poem 'Son Número 6', the translator, Salvador Ortiz-Carboneres, draws attention to Guillén's pioneering embrace, more than sixty years ago, of an African identity in Cuba. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHis selection shows Guillén 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', Guillén is also seen stressing the mulatez heterogeneity of Cuban culture in drawing on African, European and other immigrant traditions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs a life-long Marxist and anti-imperialist, Guillén 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'. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this dual language selection of one of the outstanding poets of the Hispanic world, Salvador Ortiz-Carboneres has created lively, very readable English versions that capture both the colloquial vigour of Guillén's language and the incantatory rhythms of those of the poems where he draws on the dance patterns of the Cuban 'son'. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe selection covers the range of Guillén's work from \u003ci\u003ePoemas de Transición\u003c\/i\u003e (1927-1931) up to poems from \u003ci\u003eLa Rueda Dentada\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEl Diario que a Diario\u003c\/i\u003e, both of 1972. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith a translator's preface, an introduction by the distinguished scholar of Cuban culture, Professor Alistair Hennessy, notes, a chronology and a reading list, this is an edition that will bring Guillén's powerful and epochal poetry to both the general reader and to the student. His work is unquestionably one of the towering landmarks of Caribbean poetry. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSalvador Ortiz-Carboneres\u003c\/b\u003e teaches Spanish language and Latin American poetry at the Language Centre, University of Warwick.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nicolás Guillén\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 190071597X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781900715973\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peepal Tree Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.12h x 5.42w x 0.64d","brand":"Nicolás Guillén","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47136525418751,"sku":"9781900715973","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c2b2b092-6471-4ad4-a2f9-d595c8afed23.jpg?v=1755023608","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/yoruba-from-cuba-nicolzas-guillzsn-9781900715973","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}