Cantos populares de mi tierra
La noche re una fietas
Re Pura i limpia.
Caliente taba er baile;
Yo retraío,
Lleno e la timirece
Re un barba-limpio;
Maj re repente
Vire ciecta picúa
Re arto copete.
Me enamoré ar momento
Re su gacvéza,
I junto no soplamos
Entre la ruea,
A bailá un porro
Books by Candelario Obeso in ALAWiT
About ALAWiT
ALAWiT is a resource for readers, writers, publishers, students and teachers interested in Afro-American and Latin American culture in general, and Afro-Latin American culture in particular. It gathers book covers, excerpts, bibliographic clues and digital downloads of works by black Latin American authors in original language and in translation.
The collection is developed to promote Afro-Latin American Writers in Translation: a series of critial editions of celebrated works in translation coordinated by professor Mark A. Sanders and aimed to advance research and academic reflection on the Black presence in Latin America and its influence across the Americas.
