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To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
CUBA has always attracted the passionate sympathies of poets everywhere. “Cuba, my love, they put you on the rack,” wrote Pablo Neruda in Canto General, “cut your face, pried open your legs of pale gold, crushed your pomegranate sex, stabbed you with knives, dismembered you, burned you.”
The country’s national poets, Jose Marti and Nicolas Guillen, were revolutionaries and Che Guevara was also a poet.
After the fall of Batista, poets like Allen Ginsberg, Nazim Hikmet, Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Hans Magnus Enzensberger visited Cuba to write about the revolution.
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