Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

A special presentation of Anne Fountain‘s dual-language 2005 edition of José Martí’s Versos Sencillos, in the wake of last year’s 130th anniversary of its original publication in New York City in 1891.

A distinguished Martí scholar and translator, Fountain’s sensitive translation of Martí’s 1891 collection of poems is widely considered the most faithful English rendition of Martí’s seminal work.

Prof. Fountain will discuss the nature of the poems, the original text, the role of music, and particularly Pete Seeger, in popularizing the verses, and how translation has taken them worldwide. She will read and discuss translations of poems 39 (“Cultivo una rosa blanca”) and 30 (“El rayo surca, sangriento”).

This special literary event is part of our CreateNYC Language Access Series on Cuban History, Art, and Literature. It will be held in English.

DUE TO THE COVID PANDEMIC, IT WILL BE STREAMED THROUGH OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL.

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Anne Fountain is Professor Emerita, San José State University. Her books about José Martí include, José Martí and U.S. Writers (2003); Versos Sencillos: A Dual Language Edition (2005); José Martí, the United States, and Race (2014); and Ramona: Novela Americana, edición crítica (2018) a critical edition with introduction in Spanish of Martí’s 1888 translation of the Helen Hunt Jackson novel of 1884. She has published numerous chapters, articles, and reviews about Martí and Cuban topics including the chapter on Martí in A Companion to World Literature, Vol 5a, John Wiley & Sons (2020). She served as Guest speaker and consultant for National Endowment for the Humanities Institutes about Martí in 2002 (University of South Florida) and 2019 (University of Tampa) and was the subject of a C-SPAN interview about José Martí. The United States, and Race in February 2017. She is currently working on a a book called Teaching “Nuestra América.”

This event is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York State Legislature.

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