Poetry Criticism | Guillén, Nicolás - Nicolás Guillén with Ciro Bianchi Ross (interview date 1972)

Nicolás Guillén with Ciro Bianchi Ross (interview date 1972)

SOURCE: "Nicolás Guillén's 70^th Birthday Conversation with Ciro Bianchi Ross," in The Poetry of Nicolás Guillén, New Beacon Books, 1976, pp. 58-80.

[In the following excerpt from a 1972 interview, originally published in Cuba Internacional, Guillén discusses his Cuban childhood, his thoughts on negritude, Cuban politics, and major themes in his work.]

[Ciro Bianchi Ross]:

How do you judge the literary formation that you received in your childhood? Which things in that childhood are you interested in highlighting now?

[Nicolás Guillén]:

No, I couldn't speak about a literary formation in the more or less strict sense of the word; and naturally neither from the academic point of view. What happened is that I found so much in my father's house as in my godfather's—both learned and scholarly—books of Spanish and...

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