A fantastical collection of poems by revolutionary Afro-Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén presented in a Spanish-English bilingual edition. &nbsp; Born in Cuba to parents of African and European ancestry, Nicolás Guillén worked in printing presses and studied law before moving into Havana's literary scene. A virtuosic maker and breaker of forms, Guillén rose to fame by transforming a popular form of Cuban music into poetry that called attention to the experience of Afro-Cuban people, and he continued to interweave his artistic and political commitments as he traveled the world. &nbsp; Originally published in Spanish in 1967, The Great Zoo is a humorous and biting collection of poems that presents a fantastical bestiary of ideas, social concerns, landscapes, phenomena, and more. The "animals" on view in this menagerie include the Mississippi and Amazon Rivers, clouds from different countries, a singing guitar, a temperamental atomic bomb, blue-pelted police, a hurricane, the KKK, and the North Star, among many others. Translated by Aaron Coleman with a keen understanding of the contexts of colonial racialization, oppression, and exoticism, this bilingual edition stands as a testament to Guillén's carnivalesque vision. &nbsp;

The Great Zoo: A Bilingual Edition (Phoenix Poets)

Literature & Fiction

Guillén, Nicolás

Poetry

University of Chicago Press

The Daily Daily (LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE) (English and Spanish Edition)

Univ. Of California Pr.

In 1966, GuillTn (1902-1989), the National Poet of Cuba, wrote a book of 15 poems dealing with a rupture in his affair with Sara Casal, to whom he dedicated the book. This bilingual edition presents the poems and Ellis's commentary and notes. As an epilogue, Ellis includes a previously unpublished sonnet by the Cuban poet Eliseo Diego, "A Sara Casal." The volume is illustrated with 13 b&amp;w drawings by the Cuban painter Ernesto Garcfa Pena. Canadian call number: C94-930761-0. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

New Love Poetry: In Some Springtime Place : Elegy/Nueva Poesia De Amor : En Algun Sitio De LA Primavera : Elegia (University of Toronto Romance Series (Unnumbered).) (English and Spanish Edition)

Ellis, Keith

Univ of Toronto Pr

The Great Zoo and Other Poems (English and Spanish Edition)

Monthly Review+press

La Habana. 20 cm. 222 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Idiomas Inglés y Castellano. Edited and translated by Robert Márquez .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario.

The Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén, who was born in the eastern province of Camagüey 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 Márquez, one of the original translators and a leading authority on Caribbean and Latin American literature and culture.

Man-Making Words: Selected Poems of Nicolas Guillen (English and Spanish Edition)

Univ of Massachusetts Pr

Man Making Words

University of Massachusetts Press

The Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén, who was born in the eastern province of Camagüey 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 Márquez, one of the original translators and a leading authority on Caribbean and Latin American literature and culture.

Man-Making Words: Selected Poems of Nicolas Guillen

United States

Presents a selection of poems, in both English and Spanish, that evoke the themes of race and the legacy of slavery in the United States and the Caribbean.

Yoruba from Cuba: Selected Poems of Nicolás Guillén

Peepal Tree Press Ltd.

Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Spanish by Roberto Marquez. In this collection, Guillen's vision of life as a widespread and diverse menagerie remains as potent today as when it was first published. Guillen's poetry draws on chilling realities and the absurd to fashion a zoo of natural and humanmade wonders alongside a wealth of social and political issues.

The Great Zoo/El Gran Zoo

Marquéz, Roberto

Mango Publishing

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The Great Zoo: A Bilingual Edition (Phoenix Poets)

The Daily Daily (LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE) (English and Spanish Edition)

New Love Poetry: In Some Springtime Place : Elegy/Nueva Poesia De Amor : En Algun Sitio De LA Primavera : Elegia (University of Toronto Romance Series (Unnumbered).) (English and Spanish Edition)

The Great Zoo and Other Poems (English and Spanish Edition)

The Great Zoo and Other Poems (English and Spanish Edition)

Man-Making Words: Selected Poems of Nicolas Guillen (English and Spanish Edition)

Man Making Words

Man-Making Words: Selected Poems of Nicolas Guillen

Yoruba from Cuba: Selected Poems of Nicolás Guillén

The Great Zoo/El Gran Zoo