Man-Making Words: Selected Poems of Nicolas Guillen - Paperback

by Nicolas Guillen (Author), Roberto Marquez (Translator), David Arthur McMurray (Translator)

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.

Author Biography

ROBERTO MÁRQUEZis professor of Latin American studies at Mount Holyoke College. DAVID ARTHUR MCMURRAY, at the time of original publication, taught in the department of comparative literature at the University of Alberta.