The purpose of any piece of writing is its existence before a reader’s eyes. - Nancy Morejón

The working class districts of Havana shaped my outlook

For me, writing a poem means enormous enjoyment that reaches its culmination when the poem appears in print.

For many years I have said, following the tradition of Nicolás Guillén, Fernando Ortiz and Alejo Carpentier, that whoever wants to understand Cuba cannot ignore its mestizo condition in which the Hispanic and African components cannot be divided because they have created a cosmovisión that is authentically original.