| Description |
xx, 214 pages ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Text in English and Spanish. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Exile -- Rivers -- Bars -- Cities -- Carioca song -- Brazil-Copacabana -- Little ballad of Plovdiv -- In the winter in Paris -- Neighborhood house -- Soviet Union -- Cosmonaut -- Sputnik 57 -- Chinese songs -- Wu Sang-Kuei -- 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 -- Black man sings in New York City -- Ballad of the two grandfathers -- Son for Antillean children -- My last name -- Cuban elegy -- Elegy for Emmett Till -- Elegy for Jacques Roumain -- Elegy for Camaguey -- Elegy for Jesus Mendendez -- Execution -- Words in the tropics -- Arrival -- Short Grotesque Litany on the death of Senator McCarthy -- Song for Puerto Rico -- Bonsal -- Far off -- Flowers grow high -- Sell me? -- Whatever time is past was worse -- Land in the Sierra and the plain -- Guitar in mounrning major -- Sunday reading -- Thus sings a mockingbird in el Turquino -- I came on a slaveship -- Angela Davis -- Notes and glossary -- Note on sources. |
| Summary |
From the Publisher: 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. |
| Subject |
Guillén, Nicolás, 1902-1989 -- Translations into English.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Guillén, Nicolás, 1902-1989. Man-making words; selected poems of Nicolás Guillén. [Amherst] University of Massachusetts Press [1972] (OCoLC)568619614 |
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Online version: Guillén, Nicolás, 1902-1989. Man-making words; selected poems of Nicolás Guillén. [Amherst] University of Massachusetts Press [1972] (OCoLC)607768010 |
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