CONTENTS

PREFACE

CHRONOLOGY

INTRODUCTION by Ivan A. Schulman

PART 1: WRITINGS ON THE AMERICAS

    Political Prison in Cuba (1871)

    The Spanish Republic and the Cuban Revolution (February 15, 1873)

    The Memorial Meeting in Honor of Karl Marx (March 29, 1883)

    Wandering Teachers (May 1884)

    Indians in the United States (October 25, 1885)

    Dedication of the Statue of Liberty (October 29, 1886)

    The Munkácsy Christ (December 2, 1886)

    The Funeral of the Haymarket Martyrs (November 13, 1887)

    Three Heroes (from The Golden Age, July–October 1889)

    Mother America (December 19, 1889)

    Our America (January 1, 1891)

    San Martín (1891)

    With All, For the Good of All (November 26, 1891)

    Our Ideas (March 14, 1892)

    The Cuban Revolutionary Party (April 3, 1892)

    My Race (April 16, 1893)

    Simón Bolívar (October 28, 1893)

    The Truth About the United States (March 23, 1894)

    Manifesto of Montecristi (March 25, 1895)

    Campaign Diary (April–May 1895)

PART 2: LETTERS

    Letter to mother (October 23, 1862)

    Letter to mother (November 10, 1869)

    Letter to sister Amelia (January 1882)

    Letter to General Máximo Gómez (October 20, 1884)

    Letter to Fermín Valdés Domínguez (February 28, 1887)

    Letter to the Editor of the New York Evening Post (March 23, 1889)

    Letter to mother (May 15, 1894)

    Letter to Federico Henríquez y Carvajal (March 25, 1895)

    Letter to mother (March 25, 1895)

    Letter to son José (April 1, 1895)

    Letter to Carmen Miyares de Mantilla and her children (April 16, 1895)

    Letter to the New York Herald (May 2, 1895)

    Letter to Manuel Mercado (May 18, 1895)

PART 3: VERSE

Ismaelillo

    Dedication

    Príncipe Enano

    Little Prince

    Tábanos Fieros

    Fierce Horseflies

Free Verse

    My Poetry

    Hierro

    Iron

    Yugo y Estrella

    Yoke and Star

    Crin Hirsuta

    Bristling Mane

Simple Verses

    Prologue

    I. Yo soy un hombre sincero /

         A sincere man am I

    X. El alma trémula y sola /

         My soul tremulous and lonely

    XXIII. Yo quiero salir del mundo /

         From this world I will depart

    XXXIX. Cultivo una rosa blanca /

         I have a white rose to tend

    XLV. Sueño con claustros de mármol /

         I dream of marble cloisters

    XLVI. Vierte, corazón, tu pena /

         Your sorrows, my heart, you should hide

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