Copyright © 2015 by Tom Hayden

A Seven Stories Press First Edition

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Excerpts from Roque Dalton’s poems “Tense Conversation” and “Soldier’s Rest,” from Small Hours of the Night: Selected Poems of Roque Dalton, edited by Hardie St. Martin (Willimantic: Curbstone Press, 1996). Reprinted courtesy of Curbstone Press.

Excerpt from Bertolt Brecht’s poem “To Posterity,” from Selected Poems, translated by H. R. Hays (New York: Grove Press, 1959). Reprinted courtesy of Grove Press.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hayden, Tom.

Listen, yankee! : why Cuba matters / Tom Hayden. -- Seven Stories Press first edition.

pages cm

ISBN 978-1-60980-596-8 (hardcover)

1. United States--Foreign relations--Cuba. 2. Cuba-Foreign relations--United States. I. Title.

E183.8.C9H39 2015
327.7307291--dc23

2014038293

Printed in the United States of America

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