{"id":10072,"date":"2020-11-26T16:44:09","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T16:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=10072"},"modified":"2020-11-26T16:44:09","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T16:44:09","slug":"purchase-cuban-love-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2020\/11\/26\/purchase-cuban-love-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Purchase Cuban Love Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u2018They sang Cuban love-songs and moonsweet madigrals and selections from the best and finest of Italian opera\u2019.
\n<\/em>Flann O\u2019Brien
\nAt Swim-Two-Birds<\/em><\/p>\n

Edited by Ronan Sheehan<\/a><\/span> under the imprint of Cassandra Voices, Cuban Love Songs<\/i><\/span><\/strong> is a joint effort of the Writers and Artists Union of Cuba (UNEAC) and a variety of Irish writers and poets, including established names and rising talents. Tastefully designed by Kate Horgan, it is an Irish salute to Cuba and a Cuban salute to Ireland.<\/p>\n

\u2018Two islands, together in a sea of struggle and hope,\u2019 was the phrase used by Ireland’s President Michael D. Higgins when visiting Cuba in 2017, and also in welcoming the President of the Republic of Cuba H.E Mr Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, along with his wife Lis Cuesta Peraza to Ireland in October 2019<\/p>\n

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Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The outstanding figure among the fifty Cuban poets represented in this volume is Jos\u00e9 Juli\u00e1n Mart\u00ed P\u00e9rez <\/span>(1853-1895), who is generally referred to as Jos\u00e9<\/span> Mart\u00ed<\/span>. The literary-political career of this poet, essayist, classicist, journalist, translator, university professor, publisher, and revolutionary is evocative of the Young Irelanders of the 1840s, or even the organisers of the 1916 Easter Rising. His lyrics for Guantanamera became Cuba’s best known song.<\/p>\n