When we talk about black poetry, poetry with flavor, with memory, with an Afro-Antillean identity, a name that represents it emerges: it is the teacher Nicolás Guillén, a Cuban poet who started his life as a typographer and walked so much among the letters, He ended up writing them so that they had their rhythm, their history and their joy.
One of his best-known poems, sings his pride as a revolutionary Cuban:
That's how he wrote, how happy he lived with what life had given him, the Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén, born on a day like today, July 10, 1902. And from his verses he wants us all to have what we want to have.
