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The Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén, who was born in the eastern province of Camagüey in 1902, died in 1989. This new edition of his selected poems, reissued thirty years after its original publication, includes an extensive, new introductory essay by Roberto Márquez, one of the original translators and a leading authority on Caribbean and Latin American literature and culture.

Finalist, Montaigne Medal, Eric Hoffer Award

The Black American Literature Forum said of his work, “Mbembe’s poems express a hunger for a fuller life, for an affirmation of existence.” The Kansas City Star commented, “Mbembe works with his own special problem of saying what he has to say and saying it in the authentic voice of a special culture.” The literary quarterly Northeast summed up his work by suggesting we “look for his light on the dark waters of the bay--red flashing four: courage; white flashing one: love--you will find your way safely to harbor.”