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A tribute to Elisha Diego in his centenary wants to be this article. The author rests in the poet’s verses to show us his tentative recurrence to the description of spaces that refer to the island and its edges. And it was Diego who was one of the intellectuals who nucleared around the group and the magazine Orígenes, and for whom, Cuba, as an island, had a transcendent dimension.

In this time of obligatory gathering, the books have been excellent company. From Palabra Nueva we recommend reading Traspapelados Archives, title of Mirta Yáñez. The invitation is accompanied by a strong critero of this Cuban author: “Poor of those who in the rispidity of existence cannot count on the handle of an old poem or an ineffable character of literature. One might wonder whether much of the spiritual poverty that sometimes slaps us does not come from people devoid of the magical arsenal of imagination and poetry.”