{"product_id":"the-great-zoo-a-bilingual-edition","title":"The Great Zoo, A Bilingual Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA fantastical collection of poems by revolutionary Afro-Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén presented in a Spanish-English bilingual edition.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Cuba to parents of African and European ancestry, Nicolás Guillén worked in printing presses and studied law before moving into Havana's literary scene. A virtuosic maker and breaker of forms, Guillén rose to fame by transforming a popular form of Cuban music into poetry that called attention to the experience of Afro-Cuban people, and he continued to interweave his artistic and political commitments as he traveled the world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in Spanish in 1967, \u003cem\u003eThe Great Zoo\u003c\/em\u003e is a humorous and biting collection of poems that presents a fantastical bestiary of ideas, social concerns, landscapes, phenomena, and more. The \"animals\" on view in this menagerie include the Mississippi and Amazon Rivers, clouds from different countries, a singing guitar, a temperamental atomic bomb, blue-pelted police, a hurricane, the KKK, and the North Star, among many others. Translated by Aaron Coleman with a keen understanding of the contexts of colonial racialization, oppression, and exoticism, this bilingual edition stands as a testament to Guillén's carnivalesque vision.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aaron Coleman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42818191720509,"sku":"9780226834795","price":26.96,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9780226834795_ee3c97ef-587a-41d1-b3c7-f36f04f6aba2.jpg?v=1766915814","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/the-great-zoo-a-bilingual-edition","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}