Selected Writings (Penguin Classics)

Poet.

I was referred to Marti' through other literary sources. What I found far surpassed my expectations. Whether it is his writing style, his first hand accounts of important moments in US and Cuban history as a reporter or the insight into US and Cuban relations and the inevitable attempts at a Cuban revolution that followed, this is important reading to any serious or even curious student of Cuba, US History or Latin American literature and literary figures. The writings evolve over a lifetime and combine the life experiences of Jose Marti with the evolution of US social and political upheaval during this period, the growing discontent of Spanish rule over Cuba and reveal much about the US and Cuba through the eyes of an activist observer who ultimately became part of the story. His final writings and accounts of the War and his role in an ill fated revolution are some of the most intimate and foreboding accounts of a person's life mission that I can recall ever having read and seem to be a turning point in modern Latin American writing and literature. The final document of the poet warrior's chronical of his and his country's pending demise.

Marti was a prodigy, a genius, yet he is little known in the U.S. either for his prose or poetry. Those who have heard of him may associate him with Radio Marti or know him as a Cuban revolutionary.While this beautifully rendered translation includes a broad spectrum of Marti's works, some not previously translated, his descriptions of America in the latter half ot the nineteenth century are by themselves sufficient reason to buy this book.Marti, coming from a different culture, sees things about America that we do not, and he describes them with a passion lacking in the reportage of his North American contemporaries.

I found this text very approachable and with a good mix of Marti's writings both thematically and in terms of his progression as a poet and a political thinker. You can not understand contemporary Cuba, especially Cuban nationalism without reading Marti. This reader is a great start.

Great addition to history book collection

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Excellent product, I would buy this product again an I will recommend it, very useful, variable, and can be place anywhere.

A nice book of some of José Martí's key writings. A great way of getting an overview of his works.

Just starting to read it, already love it. Viva Cuba :-)

The book Jose Marti was for a friend in Cuba whose son and daughter are language students at college and it will help them with reading Cuban history in English.

Love this book. What a great collection of his work. I enjoy his descriptions of NYC and the news from that era.