Nothing Out of This World Faber & Faber His lines fluoresce with the

His lines fluoresce with the pain of memories which cannot be re-lived

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Nothing Out of This World Faber & Faber His lines fluoresce with theCuba has always attracted the passionate sympathies of poets and revolutionaries. Cuba, my love, they put you on the rack, wrote Pablo Neruda in Canto General, cut your face, pried open your legs of pale gold, crushed your pomegranate sex, stabbed you with knives, dismembered you, burned you. Ernesto Che Guevara was a poet. The countrys national poets, Jose Mart and Nicols Guilln were also revolutionaries. After the fall of Batista, poets like