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The Great Zoo: A Bilingual Edition

The Great Zoo: A Bilingual Edition

Guillén, Nicolás
Coleman, Aaron

Paperback

Series: Phoenix Poets

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 0226834794
ISBN13: 9780226834795
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Oct 2 2024
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.40
Language: Spanish
A fantastical collection of poems by revolutionary Afro-Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén presented in a Spanish-English bilingual edition.

Born in Cuba to parents of African and European ancestry, Nicolás Guillén worked in printing presses and studied law before moving into Havana's literary scene. A virtuosic maker and breaker of forms, Guillén rose to fame by transforming a popular form of Cuban music into poetry that called attention to the experience of Afro-Cuban people, and he continued to interweave his artistic and political commitments as he traveled the world.

Originally published in Spanish in 1967, The Great Zoo is a humorous and biting collection of poems that presents a fantastical bestiary of ideas, social concerns, landscapes, phenomena, and more. The animals on view in this menagerie include the Mississippi and Amazon Rivers, clouds from different countries, a singing guitar, a temperamental atomic bomb, blue-pelted police, a hurricane, the KKK, and the North Star, among many others. Translated by Aaron Coleman with a keen understanding of the contexts of colonial racialization, oppression, and exoticism, this bilingual edition stands as a testament to Guillén's carnivalesque vision.

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