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  • 标题:Prelude.
  • 作者:Morejon, Nancy
  • 期刊名称:World Literature Today
  • 印刷版ISSN:0196-3570
  • 出版年度:2005
  • 期号:May
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:University of Oklahoma
  • 摘要:Editorial note: From With Eyes and Soul: Images of Cuba, ed. Dennis Maloney, photographs by Milton Rogovin. Copyright [c] 2004 by White Pine Press, Buffalo, New York (www.whitepine.org). Reprinted by arrangement with the publisher.

Prelude.


Morejon, Nancy


My country is sweet on the outside, but very bitter on the inside, wrote Nicolas Guillen, in Argentina, at the end of the 1940s. That's how our history happened: in the midst of canefields that were bitter and belonged to others, along endless plantations of tobacco that were fragrant and belonged to others, among coral shoals and reefs that belonged to others, under the air we breathed that belonged to others. Cuba was a palm grove that was sold. And the only thing we fully owned was hunger at early rising, at the height of day, in wind and weather; the lash and rude pain; the boundless ignorance of the world and of ourselves; a few dim gods with no horizon; and loads of hopes, which one day, from the heights of the Sierra, assaulted the Island in the very heart of the Caribbean. Havana burned like the eyes of a cock. Night's shadows fled above the coconut palms. A green wind settled in the morning.

Editorial note: From With Eyes and Soul: Images of Cuba, ed. Dennis Maloney, photographs by Milton Rogovin. Copyright [c] 2004 by White Pine Press, Buffalo, New York (www.whitepine.org). Reprinted by arrangement with the publisher.

* Editorial note: Bodoni is a typeface; a reglet is a flat piece of wood used to separate lines of type.

NANCY MOREJON (b. 1944) is director of the Center for Caribbean Studies at the Casa de las Americas in Havana, a member of the Academia Cubana de la Lengua, and an advisor for the Teatro Nacional de Cuba. One of the foremost Cuban writers and intellectuals of her generation, her publications include several books of poetry and theater as well as critical studies of Cuban history and literature. In 2001 she won Cuba's Premio de la Critica for her verse collection La quinta de los molinos, and in 2002 she helped honor Roberto Fernandez Retamar as the fellow of the Puterbaugh Conference on World Literature at the University of Oklahoma (see WLT, Summer-Autumn 2002, 27, 52-53).
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