Evening star

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His preparation was exceptional.

Bora in Havana, January 28, 1853,

he was imprisoned for political rea

sons when only seventeen years of

age. The University of Zaragoza in

Aragon gave him degrees in law and

in philosophy when he was but

twenty. Subsequently, he resided

and traveled in Mexico, Colombia,

Venezuela, Haiti, the Dominican Re

public, Guatemala and Costa Rica.

A decade of his brief career was

.spent in New York, and there in

1887 he met Walt Whitman and

heard him read his mystical dirge

on Lincoln.

The Bulletin of the Pan American

Union for May prints a translation

of Marti’s impressions of the “most

daring, catholic and unrestrained”

poet of his time. Here, he says:

We have no dainty rhymes, no

private griefs, but the birth of an

era, the dawn of a definitive religion,

and the spiritual renewal of man

kind; here we have a faith to take

the place of one that has died, a

faith that rises radiant from the

dynamic peace of ransomed man;

here we have the sacred books of a

people which is combining upon the

ruins of the old world all the virgin

forces of freedom with the fertility

and richness of untamed Nature;

here we have set to the music of

words the sounds of multitudes find

ing their places, of cities ih toil, of

oceans mastered and of rivers tamed

and put to work.

Whitman himself never attempted

any such explanation of “Leaves of

Grass.” Obviously, he could not so

describe his effort. But Marti was

privileged to do what needed doing.

He was a stranger, he came to judg

ment from outside, he was objective

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Evening star. (1945). Washington, D.C., 1945-06-02. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1945-06-02/ed-1/?sp=8

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Evening star, 1945-06-02.