| Description |
1 online resource (xxxiv, 462 pages) |
| Series |
Penguin classics |
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Penguin classics.
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| Contents |
Jose Marti: An Introduction / Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria -- Earliest Writings -- Abdala -- Letter to His Mother from Prison -- Political Prison in Cuba -- 1871-1881 -- Notebooks 1-3 -- Early Journalism -- The Poor Neighborhoods of Mexico City -- Sarah Bernhardt -- Impressions of America (by a very fresh Spaniard) -- 1882-1890 -- Poetry -- Prologue to Juan Antonio Perez Bonalde's Poem of Niagara -- Ismaelillo -- Waking Dream/Sueno despierto -- Fragrant Arms/Brazos fragantes -- My Kinglet/Mi reyecillo -- Son of My Soul/Hijo del alma -- Free Verses/Versos libres -- My Verses -- The Swiss Father/El padre suizo -- Famous Island/Isla famosa -- Love in the City/Amor de ciudad grande -- I Hate the Sea/Odio el mar -- Winged Cup/Copa con alas -- Notebooks 4-15 -- Undated Fragment -- A Passion -- from The Golden Age -- Pin the Tail on the Donkey: A New Game and Some Old Ones -- Letters from New York -- Coney Island -- The Trial of Guiteau -- Prizefight -- Emerson -- Tributes to Karl Marx, Who Has Died -- from La America -- The Brooklyn Bridge -- The Glossograph -- Indigenous Art -- Mexico, the United States, and Protectionism -- Graduation Day -- The Indians in the United States -- The World's Biggest Explosion -- Impressionist Painters -- A Great Confederate Celebration -- The Cutting Case -- The Poet Walt Whitman -- Class War in Chicago: A Terrible Drama -- A Walking Marathon -- New York Under Snow -- Blaine's Night -- A Chinese Funeral -- Inauguration Day -- Political Correspondence -- Letter to Emilio Nunez |
| Summary |
Jose Marti (1853-1895) is the most renowned political and literary figure in the history of Cuba. A poet, essayist, orator, statesman, abolitionist, and the martyred revolutionary leader of Cuba's fight for independence from Spain, Marti lived in exile in New York for most of his adult life, earning his living as a foreign correspondent. Throughout the 1880s and early 1890s, Marti's were the eyes through which much of Latin America saw the United States. His impassioned, kaleidoscopic evocations of that period in U.S. history, the assassination of James Garfield, the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge, the execution of the Chicago anarchists, the lynching of the Italians in New Orleans, and much more, bring it rushing back to life. Organized chronologically, this collection begins with his early writings, including a thundering account of his political imprisonment in Cuba at age sixteen. The middle section focuses on his journalism, which offers an image of the United States in the nineteenth century, its way of life and system of government, that rivals anything written by de Tocqueville, Dickens, Trollope, or any other European commentator. Including generous selections of his poetry and private notebooks, the book concludes with his astonishing, hallucinatory final masterpiece, "War Diaries", never before translated into English |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English with some poems in English and Spanish |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| SUBJECT |
Martí y Pérez, José Julián, 1853-1895. nta |
| Subject |
Poets, Cuban.
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FICTION -- General.
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Poets, Cuban
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| Genre/Form |
Cuban literature
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Translations
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Allen, Esther, 1962-
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González Echevarría, Roberto.
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| LC no. |
2001054865 |
| ISBN |
9781101152850 |
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1101152850 |
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9781101153673 |
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1101153679 |
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