Fina García Marruz and Cintio Vitier
San Juan de la Cruz, 1591-1991, 1993
Matanzas, Cuba: Ediciones Vigía
One of 200 copies. Signed by both Marruz and Vitier at front illustration.
2833
Small quarto. 97pp. Photoreproduced illustrations throughout by Hiram Aguiar adopt a cubist style reminiscent of fellow Cuban and Picasso acolyte, Wifredo Lam, showing the many faces and facets of St....
Small quarto. 97pp. Photoreproduced illustrations throughout by Hiram Aguiar adopt a cubist style reminiscent of fellow Cuban and Picasso acolyte, Wifredo Lam, showing the many faces and facets of St. John of the Cross. Most notable for his Dark Night of the Soul, St. John is responsible in part for furthering the influence of his fellow Spanish visionary, St. Teresa of Avila. Marruz and Vitier's essays on St. John and his mystical theology are themselves as poetic as St. John's treatise was. Fittingly, then, a poem by Vitier concludes the volume; this poem, too, Vitier has signed. Text mimeographed and embellished with drawings, some pasted on. Sheets stapled then bound with yarn to flexible card covers. Modest rubs, expected foxing and toning to pages, else very good.


