MIGUEL BARNET


Biografía de
un cimarrón



Biography of a     
Runaway Slave    






Plants of the Palearctic Realm




Rosemary / Romero

Number of times mentioned: 1
Latin name: Rosmarinus officinalis
Region of origin: Mediterranean region

Quotations:

"Para calmarlo preparaba un cocimiento de hojitas de romero y me lo quitaba en seguida." (39)

"To rid myself of it I made a brew of rosemary leaves, and it went away right then." (50)






Botanical reference: Marianne Jennifer Datiles and Pedro Acevedo-Rodríguez, “Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary),” CAB International, 2014, https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/47678.








Image credits:

Tomás Sánchez, Autorretrato En Tarde Rosa, 1994, Acrylic on linen, 1994,
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/03/tomas-sanchez-landscape-paintings/.


Tomás Sánchez, Orilla y Cielo Gris, 1995, Acrylic on canvas, 1995,
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/03/tomas-sanchez-landscape-paintings/.



Text editions:


Esteban Montejo and Miguel Barnet, Biografía de Un Cimarrón, 223 p. (La Habana: Editorial Letras Cubanas, 1980), catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005222640.


Esteban Montejo, Biography of a Runaway Slave, ed. Miguel Barnet, trans. W. Nick Hill (Connecticut: Curbstone Press, 1994).