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Author Cuadra, Angel

Title Angel Cuadra : the poet in socialist Cuba / edited by Warren Hampton
Published Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©1994

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Description 1 online resource (158 pages) : illustrations
Contents "Writers in Socialist Cuba" -- A Correspondence of Poems -- Brief Letter to Donald Walsh (in Memoriam) -- Yesteryear's Lost Hope: Selections from the UNARE Underground Essay and Poems -- Excerpt from Pura del Prado's Preface to Tiempo del hombre
Summary Angel Cuadra was a prisoner of conscience, sentenced to one of Castro's gulags in 1967 for conspiracy. He became a forgotten man in his own country, expunged from contemporary Cuban letters
As a young literary figure and anti-Batista conspirator in the fifties, Cuadra participated both in the arts and in politics. In the flush of Batista's downfall, Cuadra enjoyed a moment of recognition as an international spokesman for Castro's successful revolution and as a popular and widely translated poet. At the same time he became a government lawyer, a helpful cover when he renewed his underground activities
A short time after Castro's triumph, the artists and writers who participated in the original revolution reappraised the new government, soon establishing a new resistance. Writing under the pen name of Alejandro Almanza, Cuadra became one of the movement's leaders
. Cuadra was released from prison in 1982 after serving his full sentence. Now a part of the Cuban intellectual community in exile in Miami, he works as an international jurist concerned with political prisoners. Cuadra continues to write; in 1988 he received an award from the government of Spain for his love poems and in 1990 received special recognition for his poetry from President Vaclav Havel of Czechoslovakia
This volume includes three of Cuadra's works in translation. The essay "Writers in Socialist Cuba" describes his final three years in Cuba, when he was free from prison but forbidden to leave the country. He tells of attempts to readjust to his beloved Havana, of reunions with friends and not-so-well-wishers, and of existence in the Castro years when all hope for a better life had evaporated. A recent postscript gives his impressions of the Cuban artistic and intellectual climate since the mid-eighties
A Correspondence of Poems (from Jail) presents Cuadra's poetic letters to the exiled Cuban poet Juana Rosa Pita. Befitting its lyrical spirit, this poetry was smuggled out of prison in a musical instrument. The third section includes excerpts from a 1963-64 essay and a collection of poetry criticizing the Castro regime, published by the underground resistance movement called UNARE
Notes English and Spanish
English
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Subject Cuadra, Angel
SUBJECT Cuadra, Angel fast
Subject Cuban poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Politics and literature -- Cuba
Authors, Cuban -- 20th century -- Biography
FICTION -- General.
Authors, Cuban
Cuban poetry
Politics and government
Politics and literature
SUBJECT Cuba -- Politics and government -- 1959-
Subject Cuba
Cuba.
Genre/Form Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Vertalingen (vorm)
Herinneringen (vorm)
Gedichten (teksten)
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Hampton, Warren
ISBN 0813022622
9780813022628
Other Titles Works. Selections. English & Spanish. 1994