Tuya, Other Verses and Translations from José Martí

New York: J.E. Richardson, 1898.

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Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 75, [5]pp., frontispiece portraits of Charles and Martí. White cloth gilt. Contemporary owner's name repeated on front and rear fly leaves, slight soiling, a nice, near fine copy. Poems of the war in Cuba by a woman about whom little is known (the contemporary *New York Times* review speculated that she is Cuban), but probably more importantly this meager translation (about a dozen pages) is one of the first translations of Martí's verse into English, just three years after his death. Martí, a Cuban patriot-poet was killed in battle trying to gain Cuban independence from Spain, and is considered one of the great Latin-American intellectuals, a modernist poet, and a Cuban national hero. Very uncommon.

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Item #393394 Tuya, Other Verses and Translations from José Martí. Cecil CHARLES, José Martí.
Tuya, Other Verses and Translations from José Martí
Tuya, Other Verses and Translations from José Martí
Tuya, Other Verses and Translations from José Martí