Excerpt from the book -The Sun GodFolding my hands, closing my eyesI connect with the Sun God, asking thee to make me His confidante : universal guide ;So that I can become His medium of expression,So that I can become the torchbearer of fate -For the planet and all life that is there and will be, there,So that I can prevent the world perishing into shambles, by gruesome prophecies coming true -Because I love ...

The essays in this collection reflect two of Martí’s key observations during his time in the United States: first, how did he, an exile living in New York, view and read his North American neighbors from a sociocultural, political and literary perspective? Second, how did his perception of the modern nation impact his own concepts of race, capital punishment, poetics, and nation building for Cuba? The overarching endeavor of this project is to view and read Martí with the same critical or ...