Songoro Consogo~Nicolas Guillen~Cuban Poet~1975~Poetry~Spanish language~Vintage~Rare~Free Shipping

Songoro Consogo~Nicolas Guillen~1975~Poetry~Spanish language~Paperback~Vintage~Rare~Free Shipping.

This is a vintage edition of Nicolas Guillen’s poetry. A rare copy in good condition. No inscriptions. Occasional pencil markings. Written in Spanish. Some fold marks on pages from bookmarking. A classic hard to find book.

Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista (10 July 1902 – 16 July 1989) was a Cuban poet, journalist, political activist, and writer. He is best remembered as the national poet of Cuba.

Guillén became outspoken politically, and dissatisfied with picturesque portrayal of the daily life of the poor. He began to decry their oppression in his poetry volumes Sóngoro cosongo and West Indies Ltd. Guillen also wrote Cantos para soldados y sones para turistas, which reflected his growing political commitment. Guillén is probably the best-known representative of the “poesía negra” (“black poetry”), which tried to create a synthesis between black and white cultural elements, a “poetic mestizaje”. Characteristic for his poems is the use of onomatopoetic words (“Sóngoro Cosongo”, “Mayombe-bombe”) that try to imitate the sound of drums or the rhythm of the son. Silvestre Revueltas’s symphonic composition Sensemayá was based on Guillén’s poem of the same name, and became that composer’s best-known work, followed by José Limantour’s suite from his film score for La noche de los mayas.

Guillén’s unique approach of using the son in his poetry is expressed in his book Sóngoro consongo (1931). In this work, Guillén included poems that depicted the lives of Cubans and emphasized the importance of Afro-Cuban culture in Cuban history. Sóngoro consongo captures the essence of the Afro-Cuban culture and ways that the people deal with their personal situations. - from Wikipedia

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