Poems, prose writing -included the journalistic ones- and repeated visits demonstrated, among other tests, his ties with the locality in which he was born on July 10th, 1902.

It was in the provincial capital where he began to forge two creative facets that purified the commitment with his people and made him a well-known personlaity: the poetry and the journalism.

In his journalistic chore, the least studied of him, his biggest legacy in our province corresponded to more than 400 chronicles written between 1924 and 1926 for the section Pisto Manchego, of the newspaper El Camagüeyano, eliminated in 1959.

Lively, incisive and with references to the province, to the country and to the world, these texts combine social, economic and political matters with commercial ads, poetry and dialogues. Often he returned to the city to meet again with the past and to obtain new experiences.

The final visit happened on June, 1982, days before his 80th birthday, and left one of the traces of that comeback in a partial contact with our San Juan, the local carnival. In this return he gave his last well-known interview published by Adelante newspaper.

The poem ¨Elegía camagüeyana¨ and the chronicle ¨Mis queridas calles camagüeyanas¨ became the principal testimonies written by Nicolás Guillén in honor to his native town.

These are the highest confessions of his passion for Camagüey, a city that, with its lights and shades always accompanied him, and inspired him, in euphorias and ruptures, anthological evocations in the poetry and in the journalism.

Translated by Ariel Ballester (Student of Languages)

{flike} {plusone} {ttweet}