The poet and essayist Nancy Morejon said today in Havana that she considers herself a creature of the Cuban Revolution, a commitment she assumes without questioning the one adopted by others.
It is regrettable that some colleagues do not accept it, that they talk about freedom of expression and rights and at the same time lie and censure or defame a history they do not know, she said in a conversation with Prensa Latina.
Invited to the Paris Poetry Market, an event inaugurated on Wednesday, and designated its honorary president, the National Literature Prize winner and author of Mississippi, Madre, Renacimiento, Mujer Negra, Lianas, peces y algas, Impresiones and many others, found upon arrival the decision of the organizers to withdraw that status, yielding to pressures from anti-Cuban sectors.
According to the literary critic and translator, what happened can be described as alarming and regrettable: the triumph of hatred over art.
I see poetry as a common good, a need to experiment and work for a better world and social justice, that was my message here, said the intellectual, who declined to participate in other activities of the 40th edition of the Market, whose administrators also excluded her from the opening ceremony, in which she had been announced.
For Morejón, there are no grudges or hatred, guided by the supreme values of love, friendship and peace.
I am in the City of Light, which has its vanguard and will always have it, grateful for the solidarity and for so many reactions in France and in other parts of the world, she stressed.
The poet insisted on her right to defend just causes and that culture should not be invaded by fascist and racist ideas.
I am a creature of the Cuban Revolution, because that process led by Fidel Castro opened a wide space for peasants and workers, she said.