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Title: Jose Marti: Selected Writings (Penguin Classics) by Jose Marti, Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, Esther Allen ISBN: 0-14-243704-2 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A must for students of American history
Comment: Marti was a prodigy, a genius, yet he is little known in the U.S. either for his prose or poetry. Those who have heard of him may associate him with Radio Marti or know him as a Cuban revolutionary.
While this beautifully rendered translation includes a broad spectrum of Marti's works, some not previously translated, his descriptions of America in the latter half ot the nineteenth century are by themselves sufficient reason to buy this book.
Marti, coming from a different culture, sees things about America that we do not, and he describes them with a passion lacking in the reportage of his North American contemporaries.
Rating: 5
Summary: A classic! The best anthology of Martí in English
Comment: Here at last--in English--is a comprehensive selection of Martí's writing, translated by a masterful hand. It leaves all other attempts at this task far behind. Esther Allen meets the challenges of Martí's exuberant and complex style with extraordinary success. This book will be a landmark text for college courses on Martí as a Latin American and Latino writer, and is an excellent introduction for the general public. Bravo to all involved in this effort to bring Martí to American readers!
Rating: 5
Summary: Open your eyes
Comment: The Cuban character, as it turns out, is not so much a development of the post-Castro trauma in which so many Cuban-Americans live but rather the expression of a deep and inescapable sense of exile. In this gorgeous, captivating translation of Marti's writings--some appearing in English for the first time--this 19th century journalist and poet is truly the epic voice of the Cuban people, articulating their pathos and homesickness in his dispatches from New York, putting his finger into the wounds of their suffered humanity in his poetry and travelogues. An elegant, profound picture of the Cuban soul, long before the Ilan Gonzalez events cast such an unfriendly light upon it.
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Title: Versos Sencillos: Simple Verses (Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage) by Jose Marti, Manuel A. Tellechea, Jose Merti ISBN: 1558852042 Publisher: Arte Publico Pr Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Havana: Two Faces of the Antillean Metropolis by Joseph L. Scarpaci, Roberto Segre, Mario Coyula, Andres Duany ISBN: 0807853690 Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Jose Marti Reader : Writings on the Americas by Jose Marti, Deborah Shnookal, Mirta Muniz ISBN: 1875284125 Publisher: Ocean Press Pub. Date: February, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Jose Marti's "Our America: From National to Hemispheric Cultural Studies (New Americanists) by Jeffrey Belnap, Raul Fernandez ISBN: 082232265X Publisher: Duke Univ Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution (Latin American Histories) by Louis A. Perez ISBN: 0195094824 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: December, 1995 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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