A difficult-to-obtain Cuban poetry anthology, rarely encountered in the US due to embargo restrictions.
In Doscientos Años de Poesía, 1790–1990: Cien Poemas Antológicos, poet, critic, and scholar Virgilio López Lemus presents a curated selection spanning two centuries of Cuban lyric poetry. This volume continues a canonical tradition of national anthologies initiated by José María Chacón y Calvo (1922), followed by Rafael Esténger and Cintio Vitier, offering a selective (though necessarily incomplete) survey of Cuba’s poetic inheritance.
As edited by Alex Pausides and Jacqueline Teillagorry Criado, the anthology brings together major voices including Heredia, Avellaneda, Martí, Casal, Guillén, Lezama Lima, Piñera, Fina García Marruz, and others.
Bears an ink inscription on the half-title page: "Para la mejor aprendiz de cubana... y mi amiga. Un beso siempre, [presenter's name difficult to decipher]."
- language: Spanish
- ISBN: 9789592101593
- published: 1999
- publisher: Casa Editorial Abril, Havana, Cuba
- format: paperback / softcover
- condition: some chipping and bending to covers; moderate shelf wear; binding intact; pages clean and unmarked; occasional inadvertent dog-earing
- page count: 440, with printer’s ornaments throughout
- size: 5.25" wide × 8" tall × 0.75" thick
Both a readable introduction and a reference work, this title reflects the evolution of Cuban literary identity across the 19th and 20th centuries.