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“Mirar Adentro Del siglo dieciseis data mi pena y apenas lo sabía porque aquel ruiseñor siempre canta en mi pena. Looking Within From the sixteenth century dates my suffering though I barely felt it for that nightingale always sings in my suffering.”

Suffering Cuban Poetry Poesia Cubana

Book:Where the Island Sleeps Like a Wing: Selected Poetry

Source: Where the Island Sleeps Like a Wing: Selected Poetry

“¿Sabes que ese manzano fue plantado con la tierra robada a los Rodilla-Herida por el gobernador del estado? ¿Acaso tú conoces que su savia se nutre con los huesos y pelos prisioneros de San Quintín? Did you know that apple tree was planted on land stolen from Wounded Knee by the governor of the state? Perhaps you know how its sap is nourished with the prisoner bones and hair of San Quentin? (de Un Manzano de Oakland, para Angela Davis)”

Prison Wounded Knee Angela Davis

Book:Where the Island Sleeps Like a Wing: Selected Poetry

Source: Where the Island Sleeps Like a Wing: Selected Poetry

“Y a ti, viajero, te dará sombra siempre, pero detén tu marcha pesarosa ante esa sombra suya. No olvidarás jamás que ha sido la triste, cruel, umbrosa, la efímera morada de múltiples cabezas negras colgando entre el follaje, incorruptibles. And you, traveller, it will shade you always, but slow your heavy step before its shadow. Never will you forget this tree has been of multitudinous black heads hanging among the foliage, the sad, cruel, shadowy, the ephemeral dwelling incorruptible. (de Un Manzano de Oakland, para Angela Davis)”

Book:Where the Island Sleeps Like a Wing: Selected Poetry

Source: Where the Island Sleeps Like a Wing: Selected Poetry

“No matter how good the message may be, it will be useless unless it is done well (Interview in A Contemporary Cuba Reader, 2000)”

Author:Nancy Morejón

“ese rumor de aliento libre en primavera que corre al mar para volver y volver a partir. that whisper of the free breath of spring that flows seaward only to return returning only to depart again. (de "Negro")”

Spring Primavera

Book:Where the Island Sleeps Like a Wing: Selected Poetry

Source: Where the Island Sleeps Like a Wing: Selected Poetry

“The revolution opened doors for us and allowed an enormous social mobility. Many walls that blocked communication were demolished, and taboos were cast out. (Interview in A Contemporary Cuba Reader, 2000)”

Revolution Cuban Revolution Social Mobility

Author:Nancy Morejón

“y los himnos pluviales que nacen de su boca envolviéndonos sí como a dos nautas enlazados al velamen incierto del amor. (de "A Un Muchacho")”

Love Love Poetry Poesia Del Amor

Book:Where the Island Sleeps Like a Wing: Selected Poetry

Source: Where the Island Sleeps Like a Wing: Selected Poetry

“que voy de nuevo entre las calles, entre orichas, entre el calor oscuro y corpulento, entre los colegiales que declaman Martí, entre los automóviles, entre los nichos, entre mamparas, entre la Plaza del pueblo, entre los negros, entre guardacantones, entre los parques, entre la ciudad vieja, entre el viejo viejo Cerro, entre mi Catedral, entre mi puerto aquí vuelvo a decír: amor, ciudad atribuída (de "Amor, Ciudad Atribuída")”

Cuba Jose Marti Cuban Poetry Poesia Cubana

Book:Where the Island Sleeps Like a Wing: Selected Poetry

Source: Where the Island Sleeps Like a Wing: Selected Poetry

“Esta gaviota vuela sobre el eterno cielo de Hanoi, como antes volaba el agresivo B-52. (de "En El País de Vietnam")”

War Vietnam Vietnam War Hanoi

Book:Where the Island Sleeps Like a Wing: Selected Poetry

Source: Where the Island Sleeps Like a Wing: Selected Poetry