Come, Come-My Boiling Blood: The Complete Poems of Jose Mart

by Jose Mart, Jack Agueros (Translator)

Most readers know "Yo Soy un Hombre Sincero" because of the wonderful rendition by Pete Seeger, but to date the large body of Jose Marti's poetic work has been unavailable in English translation. One of the greatest writers of Spanish America, Jose Marti is revered not only as the father of modernist poetry, but also of the Cuban independence movement. His political activism fueled his writing, motivating him to produce poetry, political manifestos, speeches, and hundreds of articles and reviews for journals worldwide. He is considered a hero by many for his leadership of the nationalist forces in the Cuban war of independence, which eventually lead to his untimely death. His writings and political activism were based on strong personal beliefs of morality, independence, and patriotism, a combination that both his followers and readers have found compelling for over a hundred years. "Come, Come-My Boiling Blood" contains the complete texts of his first five books of poetry. A second volume in preparation will contain the text of his remaining books of poetry so that American readers will be able to enjoy the complete body of his poetic work in a bilingual format.2003 is the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of Jose Marti's birth in Havana. During his life he suffered imprisonment and exile for his beliefs and spent the last four years of his life in New York, where he died in 1895.Jack Agueros was born in East Harlem in 1934 and still resides in New York City. Poet, playwright, fiction writer, and translator, he has published three books of poetry, the most recent of which is "Lord, is This a Psalm?" (2002), a book of short stories "Dominoes" (1993) and is the translator andeditor of "Song of the Simple Truth" (2001) a bilingual collection of poems by Julia de Burgos.

Genres: Poetry

398 pages, Paperback

Published June 30, 2005