Title: Dial poético da viaxe dun galego pol-os Estados Unidos
Description: Jose Rubinos, S.J. was a Gallician poet who lived in Cuba many years teaching at the prestigious Jesuit Colegio Belen in Habana. Among his students many were later to become influential writers, intellectuals, and Cuban civic and business leaders, including Fidel Castro Ruiz who upon coming to power in 1959 exiled all foreign born religious, including his teenage mentor, Father Rubinos. Rubinos died in Panama and was buried in his native La Coruna, Galicia, Spain. One of Rubinos' most important works is "Covadonga" an epic poem writen in his native Galician about the reconquest of Spain from the Muslims.
Subjects: Description and travel, Poetry
Places: United States
Time periods: 19502