Guillen's poetry is exemplary of a most vibrant, dynamic, and substantive aesthetic resulting from the Yoruban-Cuban encounter in the Americas. Early in his writings he tends towards a very tropical and exotic flair. As his work matures, however, he asserts his Africanité very strongly in the language he uses, the oral traditional elements interlaced in his poems, and his musical and religious allusions.
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