[POETRY] [CUBA] GUILLÉN, Nicolas; Nancy Morejón

Recopilación de textos sobre Nicolas Guillen [Inscribed to Roberto Márquez]

Havana: Casa de las Americas, 1974. First Edition. First Impression, one of 18,000 copies. Narrow octavo (22.75cm); original pictorial card wrappers; [6],7-429,[3]pp; illus.; text is entirely in Spanish. Inscribed by Guillen on the title page to Puerto Rican editor, translator, and literary critic Roberto Márquez: "Para Roberto Márquez / con el fraternal cariño de Nicolas / La Habana, Feb. 74." Signed directly beneath by an unknown figure, and below that, by Afro-Cuban poet and journalist Marcelino Arozarena (1912-1996). The opposing page is inscribed for Márquez in verse (with a small drawing) by an undetermined poet, signed "David, Feb.74." The verso of the half-title page is warmly inscribed by Cuban poet and critic Nancy Morejón, who has written the foreword to this volume: "Para mi queridísimo Roberto Marquez / la admiracion y el cariño immenso de Nancy / La Habana / 19 de feb. de 1974." Directly beneath this is another warm year of publication inscription by an underemined individual. This volume has been extensively marked-up by Márquez, whose contribution, "Introducción a Guillén" appears on pp.127-138. Some wear to extremities, a few nicks and tears to spine ends, with some creases to wrappers; Very Good.

A key volume of critical texts on Guillén (1902-1989), the national poet of Cuba, by many of his contemporaries like Mirta Aguirre, Angel Augier, Roberto Fernández Retamar, Nancy Morejón, Alejo Carpentier, Pablo Neruda, Ciro Alegría, and others. This copy bears a number of contemporary inscriptions to Márquez, a Guillén scholar who has written extensively on his work, and has translated several of the poet's works faithfully from Spanish into English. 88452.

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