José Marti

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A life-changing book

La Edad de Oro (Cajon de Cuentos)
Jose Marti
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ASIN: 9583004480

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La literatura de Jose Marti es unica. En la "Edad de Oro," usted podra apreciar el significado de un poeta y escritor unico en su tiempo.

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Too small to be easy to read.......2006-11-04

I did not check the content yet since it is for a girl birthay present, but it is possible a condensed edition, because the others "La Edad de Oro" that I knew were a lot bigger books.

It's an educational children's book.......1999-01-25

This book is soo good. I grew up on it as a child in Cuba and it's just as I remember it. Marti was not only a genius but loved children. Adults can benefit from reading the book. It's thought provoking.

A beautiful book by the world's finest poet........1998-09-13

Jose Marti was an amazing man. Poet, writer, revolutionary hero - his poetry is heartbreakingly beautiful and his essays on human dignity and courage eye-opening. It's only a shame that most Americans cannot understand his words.

Anyone who can understand Spanish and hasn't read this amazing little book is truly missing out.

It's time that someone translated this treasure into other languages so much more of the world can learn to cherish it.

A life-changing book.......1998-07-16

"La Edad de Oro" is a classic book for all Cuban children; imagine George Washington having edited and written a magazine for children and collecting its few issues in one volume. During his exile, the Cuban patriot and author Jose Marti edited a children's magazine in New York. He included classic stories he had translated from other languages, his own poetry and articles dealing with history or current events. A fighter for Cuba's independence in the 19th century, Marti's perspective was that of an anti-colonialist and champion of justice. That being said, it's not difficult to see why this would be a life-changing book for many children (as Marti hoped it would. After all, he was concentrating on children as a way of turning out future adults who would also champion liberty and justice). Some of the stories have a decidedly Victorian outlook but so many are full of a fire for justice that could politicize young readers. His account of the conquest of the Am! ! ericas by the Spanish is unforgettable. I first read this book in its original Spanish version when I was five or six and it changed me forever. Call me a bleeding-heart liberal, a card-carrying pinko...whatever...but I believe so many of the causes I'm interested in (anti-nukes, social justice, anti-poverty, etc.) came as a result of Marti's having opened my eyes to racism, capitalism, colonialism and a yearning for liberty when I was young. And my parents thought they were giving me a nice little storybook! He surrounded his stories about freedom with stories about magic fish and poems about a girl's little pink shoes with the intention of turning out a generation of socially conscious Cuban kids. What a genius!

Versos Sencillos: Simple Verses (Recovering the Us Hispanic Literary Heritage)

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An important achievement in Cuban literature
A founder of Modernism
A New Side of Jose Marti

Versos Sencillos: Simple Verses (Recovering the Us Hispanic Literary Heritage)
Jose Marti , and Manuel A. Tellechea
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bilingual, 1st full translation (Manuel Tellechea)

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An important achievement in Cuban literature.......2001-07-23

"Simple Verses" is a collection of poems by Jose Marti (1853-1895), the 19th century Cuban poet and revolutionary who spent many years in exile in the United States. This is a bilingual edition, with the Spanish originals and English versions on facing pages. The translation into English is by Manuel A. Tellechea. Tellechea also contributes an excellent introduction which includes fascinating biographical information about Marti. The poems are untitled; each is assigned a Roman numeral.

Marti writes about romance, nature, family, and other subjects. Many of his poems are political and revolutionary in nature: he condemns Spanish colonial violence in Cuba, expresses his anti-slavery position, and identifies with the oppressed: "With the earth's poor everywhere, / I shall cast my lot" (poem III). In his marriage of poetry with politics and social justice, Marti foreshadows many of Latin America's 20th century poets: Gioconda Belli of Nicaragua, Roberto Sosa of Honduras, Juan Gelman of Argentina, and others, especially especially Pablo Neruda of Chile.

Many of Marti's poems appear to be autobiographical in nature. Some of his poems are dark and macabre in tone, others prophetic and even ecstatic. He sometimes reflects on his own poetic work: "My verse is like a dagger / At whose hilt a flower grows" (poem V). His best work, as interpreted by Tellechea, has a compelling freshness and beauty.

I only found one aspect of the book troublesome. Most of Marti's poems are written in four line stanzas, and in each poem he generally sticks to a constant rhyme scheme from stanza to stanza: ABBA or ABAB. But in his English versions, Tellechea sometimes mixes up the ABBA and ABAB schemes within poems, without any logical pattern and contradictory to Marti's originals; I found these switches very distracting.

Still, this is an excellent volume by a significant figure in Latin American literary history. And the rhyme scheme issue aside, I commend and thank Tellechea for making these "Simple Verses" available in English.

A founder of Modernism.......2000-10-18

Although Marti is known as the apostle of the Cuban revolution against Spain, what is not usually known was that he was a man of great heart and fully committed to what is best in the human spirit. It is not usually known that some Cubans criticized him because while those in the field were spilling their blood on the ground the others, including Marti, were only raising funds and politicking in the safety of the tobacco factories in the US. Marti galloped in his white horse toward the Spanish formations during his first encounter after the landing. He was shot in the heart and died in an act of self inmolation.

Jose Marti was always concerned with the poor, the downtrodden and all cases of inhumanity. He has been accused of communist leanings which is probably correct and was used effectively by Fidel Castro. Many of us who have known him long rather think of him as a Christian Socialist.

Marti left a large body of literature behind him. While in the US he met many of our literary figures and was very active in Journalism. Along with Ruben Dario and a few others he was a precursor of Modernism which discarded previous affected and unnatural poetic forms in favor of simpler direct and concised expressions of something deeply felt. When Marti wrote Versos Sencillos he meant exactly that. Some of his verses found their way into the lyrics of Guantanamera. They have a simple and direct beauty.

A New Side of Jose Marti.......2000-09-17

The thing that struck me about this book is that i always thought of Jose Marti as a sort of revolutionary firebrand. Reading this book, however, I realized what a strong spiritual connection he had with the universe. The poetry is what you would expect from a spiritual teacher like the Dalai Lama. This poetry demonstrates an aspect of Jose Marti's character I never before appreciated.

The America of Jose Marti Selected Writings of...

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Jose (Juan de Onis, Translator) Marti
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Los Zapaticos De Rosa/rosa's Little Shoes

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Los Zapaticos De Rosa/rosa's Little Shoes
Jose Marti
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My Childhood Poem
i liked the book because it talks about poetry.

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My Childhood Poem.......2004-07-10

My favorite aunt, Aunt Martha entertained me as a toddler with this poem for the four short years I knew her. It was not until I stumbled across it at the age of 20 while doing research in college that I remembered how I loved this poem. This book allows me to beautifully share this poem with my child, the first member of my family born outside of Cuba or Spain. I am thrilled to have found it in a form a child will readily enjoy - great illustrations, I hope my daughter will grow to enjoy the beauty of the poetry through the years.

i liked the book because it talks about poetry........1999-04-22

i like the book becouse it talks about the different things that can happen to you inlifeand also is poetry

Deliberative Democracy And Its Discontents (Applied Legal Philosophy) (Applied Legal Philosophy) (Applied Legal Philosophy)

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Deliberative Democracy And Its Discontents (Applied Legal Philosophy) (Applied Legal Philosophy) (Applied Legal Philosophy)

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A Complete Work!!!
Marti a Manifesto for Today
Canonical
A must for students of American history
A classic! The best anthology of Martí in English

Selected Writings (Penguin Classics)
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Release Date: 2002-04-30

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José Martiacute (1853-1895) is the most renowned political and literary figure in the history of Cuba. A poet, essayist, orator, statesman, abolitionist, and the martyred revolutionary leader of Cuba's fight for independence from Spain, Martí lived in exile in New York for most of his adult life, earning his living as a foreign correspondent. Throughout the 1880s and early 1890s, Martí's were the eyes through which much of Latin America saw the United States. His impassioned, kaleidoscopic evocations of that period in U.S. history, the assassination of James Garfield, the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge, the execution of the Chicago anarchists, the lynching of the Italians in New Orleans, and much more, bring it rushing back to life.

Organized chronologically, this collection begins with his early writings, including a thundering account of his political imprisonment in Cuba at age sixteen. The middle section focuses on his journalism, which offers an image of the United States in the nineteenth century, its way of life and system of government, that rivals anything written by de Tocqueville, Dickens, Trollope, or any other European commentator. Including generous selections of his poetry and private notebooks, the book concludes with his astonishing, hallucinatory final masterpiece, "War Diaries", never before translated into English.

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A Complete Work!!!.......2007-01-10

This collection of Marti's essays and letters are excellent reading for Marti scholars and beginners alike. The works are in chronological order and cover the most pivotal periods of Marti's life. Both of Marti's strongest qualities, the poet and the freedom fighter, are represented with conviction. This book is a definite must read for anyone looking to explore the mind one of the greatest literary figures of all time.

Marti a Manifesto for Today.......2005-11-10

Jos Julian Mart y Prez was born in Havana, Cuba on January 28, 1853. He is one of the most renowned writers in the history of Cuba and Latin America. In 1874 Mart earned a Law degree from the University of Zaragoza in Spain. He essentially devoted his life to the cause of independence and to the foundation of a new Cuban nation. As we perceive in the Montecristi Manifesto, Mart was a talented humanist, born out of time; an idealist and martyr that left a legacy on Cuban affairs.

As a philosopher, he attempted to navigate through the intricate mountings of thoughts. "Mart embarked early in life on a mission of political struggle and literary achievement. At fifteen, he wrote an epic poem in praise of Cuba's war of independence against Spain. At seventeen he was imprisoned and sentenced to hard labor for his political activities. For the rest of his life he wrote about and worked unstoppably for the freedom of Cuba. He founded the Cuban Revolutionary Party. His political involvement was accompanied and complemented by a constant and relentless outpouring of poetry, literary prose, journalism and political writing. In 1895 he returned to Cuba with a military force to embark upon another revolution and soon thereafter encountered a suicidal heroic death in battle."

The final battle of his life came in 1895 on Cuban soil, in a place called Dos Rios, after going to the enemy front lines, fighting against the Spanish domination in his beloved land. The expedition that brought the continuation of the war of independence into Cuba commenced in and departed from Florida and passed through the Dominican Republic, on its way to Cuba. Before departing to the east of Cuba, Jos Mart and the General Mximo Gmez, Commander in Chief of the Liberating Army, made public a document in the town of Montecristi, a manifesto exposing the goals of a revolutionary war about to begin. This was an important document that provided the guiding principles for a new Nation or a Republic, as Mart had dreamed.

The Montecristi Manifesto, as it is known in Cuban history, declared the revolution began not in 1895, but 1868, when the Grito de Yara was proclaimed by Carlos Manuel de Cspedes and the Ten Years War (1868-78) against Spanish domination took place. In this manuscript Mart pointed out interesting principles related to Cuba and Latin America, and even of a global undertone. It says: "The war of independence in Cuba...is a far-reaching human event and a timely service that the judicious heroism of the Antilles lends to the stability and just interaction of the American nations and to the still unsteady equilibrium of the world."

The humanistic undertaking of the Manifesto is rooted on the idea of a fully and stable constituted republic with freedom of thought. That republic was to be, not the triumph of one Cuban party over another, but the victory of all elements of the society. Here he establishes the significance of necessary sacrifice for a sublime purpose as the transformation of the old colonial system, a call for harmony and wisdom, and the mandatory establishment of human rights. It denounced the corruption of the metropolis: "The revolution makes use of this language without fear because the mandate to emancipate Cuba once and for all from the irremediable ineptitude and corruption of the Spanish government." Spain was not the only preoccupation on Marti's thoughts; the forces pointing to an annexation of Cuba to the United States were rampant and seemingly viable.

Marti saw in the liberation of Cuba the angular stone to stop the expansion of the North American imperialism. In his last and unfinished written letter to his longtime friend Manuel Mercado, then the Mexican undersecretary of the Interior, he pointed: "Every day now I am in danger of giving my life for my country and my duty-since I understand it and have the spirit to carry it out-in order to prevent, by the timely independence of Cuba, the United States from extending its hold across the Antilles and falling with all the greater force on the Lands of our America. All I have done up to now and all I will do is for that."

The United States was expanding his dominion and influence around its neighbors. The Monroe Doctrine declared by the U.S. President James Monroe in the seventh annual address to Congress, on December 2, 1823, became the United States' policy regarding Latin America, limiting the rights and activities of the European powers in the western hemisphere. In the beginning, it was merely a declaration of policy, but within years, the idea of annexation of the so called backyard (including the Antilles) was supported by Cubans inside and outside the island, thinking that the annexation of Cuba to the Union would be a benefit; even today, such a concept is not a dead thought for many.

Mart, a secular visionary, had the ability to see beyond the horizon in the entrails of the North American monster. In the same letter to Mercado he wrote: "The nations such as your own and mine, which have the most vital interest in keeping Cuba from becoming, through an annexation accomplished by those imperialists and the Spaniards, the doorway-which must be blocked and which, with our blood, we are blocking-to the annexation of the people of our America by the turbulent and brutal North that holds them in contempt." This so called monster, the United States, had seen in its Latin-American backyard a fertile campground to extract raw materials, dreaming one day, maybe, to be able to add more stars to the American flag.

This monster has not changed too much since then. Its Transnationals, under the concept of democracy and prosperity, can annexate the innocent intentions of a nation. Today, Mart's concerns are incredibly up to date. Is that monster ready to conquer the Latin American lands? As it refers to a military occupation, that is perhaps and most certain a utopia. But things actually have not changed. The United States of America exhibits the same power thirst for money, wherever the possibility arrives. Within the Cuban exiled population, new modern oligarchs see the opportunity of enrichment, possibly after an overturn of the actual political system in the island. Cubans from both outside and inside the island must take Marti's flag again and fight with dignity for a better Cuba, for the principles of justice, and not a mere copy of the savage capitalism that monopolizes even your will, and all that money can buy.

After the 1959 revolution, a new revolution is obligatory. That revolution brought a real independence to the island, but soon the egoist and dictatorial way of the government chose to incline the heart of the country to the red European bear. The Soviet Union made of Cuba a mere atheist puppet, a satellite of the communist interests in the world, an idle society, permanently dependant and attached to its belly button, through an umbilical square line of thought imposed on every Cuban. The Cuban Nation needs no more umbilical lines or written schemes of imported societies from the north, east, west, or south political science books. Our Judeo-Christian values had nothing to do with the reign of the dollar, the euro, or the peso. A mature society based on freedom and equality, justice for all, and dignity that embrace a brilliant future must to be built in godly honesty, sincerity and temperance.

The times of Cuban legends must be buried in the deep sea that surrounds the archipelago. Martyrs, heroes, caudillos, and good-looking stars are enjoyable in the history books; hence, the history of the island should be written in present time. Cuba has no need for last names or bank account numbers to be counted as the many stars in its national blue sky. It is necessary to proceed in a peaceful but profound continuance of the transforming revolutionary process that began in 1868; Cuba has enough heads and hearts to build a society as the Montecristi Manifesto proclaimed: "A country must find a manner of government that can satisfy both the mature and cautious intelligence of its literate sons and the necessary conditions for the assistance and respect of its other people...From its origin, the patria must be constituted in viable forms, forms born of itself."

Nac en un Archipilago
rodeado de azules mares
donde el disentir
se silencia con deshonra

All me impusieron al abuelo Lnin:
destructor,
apstata cegado
y mediocre constructor de un porvenir atascado

Ahora vivo en Troya
y conozco al Caballo desenfrenado.
Se afana mirando al tablero
donde las carreras se apstan
y el dollar se amontona
para agasajar al incrdulo

Hacia dnde vas
Caimn que te escapas?
Quin te lleva, florido ensoador?
Has dejado de contar tus palmas reales;
desmantela el oro,
ese que te pertenece,
no el que en el Atlntico profundo
tus colonizadores sepultaron.

Alejandro Roque.

Canonical.......2005-08-03

One of the most amazing writers, and a wonderful small volume, showing the diversity of his talents through many years in a great translation (the poems include the Spanish and English texts). "Our America" is an essay on the cosmopolis that is Latin America, and essays on Emerson and Whitman are among the best that exist. Furthermore, one can forget that Marti spent perhaps more time in New York than anywhere else in his life, and his writings on some of the everyday things there, particularly "A Chinese Funeral," my favorite piece in the book, give one a great sense of the city from a unique and often unrepresented perspective. There is no American literature without Jose Marti.

A must for students of American history.......2002-07-17

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.

A classic! The best anthology of Martí in English.......2002-06-26

Here at last--in English--is a comprehensive selection of Martí's writing, translated by a masterful hand. It leaves all other attempts at this task far behind. Esther Allen meets the challenges of Martí's exuberant and complex style with extraordinary success. This book will be a landmark text for college courses on Martí as a Latin American and Latino writer, and is an excellent introduction for the general public. Bravo to all involved in this effort to bring Martí to American readers!

Ismaelillo: versos libres, versos sencillos

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Ismaelillo: versos libres, versos sencillos
Jose Marti , and Ivan A. Schulman
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Inside the Monster: Writings on the United States and American Imperialism

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Inside the Monster: Writings on the United States and American Imperialism
José Martí
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The America of Jose Marti;: Selected writings

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The America of Jose Marti;: Selected writings
Jose Marti
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