Book record
Man-making Words
Nicolas Guillen
Translated from Spanish by David Arthur McMurray
Man-making Words, by Nicolas Guillen, is a Spanish poetry collection from Cuba, translated by Roberto Márquez, David Arthur McMurray, published by EDITORIAL DE ARTE Y LITERATURA,. It is a Cuban collection by Nicolás Guillén, one of the major poets of Afro-Cuban and Latin American modern poetry. The title suggests language as a social force, a way words make persons, peoples, rhythms, and political consciousness. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can begin working. Start with the title, the pressure of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. The value here is not just metadata or representation. It is the chance to let a particular book create its own weather, its own difficulty, and its own way of asking the reader to listen.
- Publisher
- EDITORIAL DE ARTE Y LITERATURA,
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Cuba