{"product_id":"the-great-zoo-a-bilingual-edition-9780226834795","title":"The Great Zoo: A Bilingual Edition","description":"\u003cb\u003eA fantastical collection of poems by revolutionary Afro-Cuban poet Nicol?s Guill?n presented in a Spanish-English bilingual edition.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Born in Cuba to parents of African and European ancestry, Nicol?s Guill?n worked in printing presses and studied law before moving into Havana's literary scene. A virtuosic maker and breaker of forms, Guill?n rose to fame by transforming a popular form of Cuban music into poetry that called attention to the experience of Afro-Cuban people, and he continued to interweave his artistic and political commitments as he traveled the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Originally published in Spanish in 1967, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Zoo\u003c\/i\u003e is a humorous and biting collection of poems that presents a fantastical bestiary of ideas, social concerns, landscapes, phenomena, and more. The \"animals\" on view in this menagerie include the Mississippi and Amazon Rivers, clouds from different countries, a singing guitar, a temperamental atomic bomb, blue-pelted police, a hurricane, the KKK, and the North Star, among many others. Translated by Aaron Coleman with a keen understanding of the contexts of colonial racialization, oppression, and exoticism, this bilingual edition stands as a testament to Guill?n's carnivalesque vision. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNicol?s Guill?n\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1902, Camag?ey, Cuba; d. 1989, Havana) was a prolific poet, writer, and activist. He is the author of more than ten collections of poetry including \u003ci\u003eMotivos de son\u003c\/i\u003e, and the first English-language anthology of his early work, \u003ci\u003eCuba Libre\u003c\/i\u003e, was translated by Langston Hughes.\u003cb\u003e Aaron Coleman\u003c\/b\u003e is an assistant professor of English and comparative literature in the Helen Zell Writers's Program at the University of Michigan. He is the author of the poetry collection \u003ci\u003eThreat Come Close\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, and the chapbook \u003ci\u003eSt. Trigger\u003c\/i\u003e, selected for the Button Poetry Chapbook Prize. Coleman has received fellowships from the NEA, Fulbright Program, Cave Canem Foundation, and American Literary Translators Association. His poems and essays have appeared in publications including the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCallaloo\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51185189421330,"sku":"9780226834795","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_39c564a1-9f01-4ace-8429-cb83d038aa00.jpg?v=1744583492","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-great-zoo-a-bilingual-edition-9780226834795","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}