This September 24, at 11 in the morning, in the José Martí park in Guantánamo, Book Saturday will be held, an emblematic space of the Provincial Book Center, throughout the country will be dedicated especially to the life and work of the poet Jesús Orta Ruiz, the Indio Naborí, to celebrate 100 years of the writer's birth on September 30.
Under the leadership of the prominent writer Eldys Baratute Benavides, the space will serve to recall the creative imprint of the National Prize for Literature in 1995, considered the Major Decimist and who, in addition to poetry, developed an extensive journalistic work accessible in the Cuban and foreign press. for more than thirty years, for which he deserved the Juan Gualberto Gómez special prize, awarded by the Union of Journalists of Cuba.
To delve into the particularities of the Naborí Indian's verse, the text Cristal de Magnification will be presented, a very interesting compendium that collects the various facets of the poetics of the traditional writer of the Cuban tenth, author of some ten titles in prose and fourteen collections of poems , in which he deals with transcendental themes such as love, insular nature, the Cuban landscape, women, time, life and death, from the tenth to free verse.
Cristal de Magnification was published for the first time in 2001, under the seal of Editorial Letras Cubanas, in Havana, and constitutes a journey through the best intimate, autobiographical and experiential poetry of the writer of the Triumphal March of the Rebel Army and the Elegy of the white shoes. The notebook also shows us the lyrical diversity of his creations, in which the cultured meets the popular and the modern meets the classic.
Text: Dairon Martinez Tejeda
Photo: Courtesy of the Book Center