Title: La conga con Fidel
Photographer(s): Various photographers
Writer(s): Nazim Hikmet, Joyce Lussu, Nicolas Guillen
Designer(s): Franco Magnani
Illustrations: Giorgio Cingoli
Publisher(s): Edizioni Avanti, Milano, Italy
Year: 1961
Print run:
Language(s): Italian
Pages: 144
Size: 15 x 22 cm
Binding: Hardcover with box
Edition:
Print: Tipografia Novecento Grafico, Bergamo, Italy
Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Cuba, 1957 - 1961
ISBN:
In 1961, Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet was invited to Cuba, in the aftermath of the revolution that overthrew the Batista regime and brought Fidel Castro to power. The purpose of the trip is to write a reportage, but Hikmet's imagination and poetic sensitivity will give rise to something else, a poem where enthusiasm and expectation for life and the Cuban revolution reign supreme.