La Conga con Fidel

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

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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.