Ngoro Consongo

Nicolás Guillén - Literary Works
... to decry their oppression in the volumes Sóngoro cosongo and West Indies Ltd ... Characteristic for his poems is the use of onomatopoetic words ("Sóngoro Cosongo", "Mayombe-bombe") that try to imitate the sound of drums or the rhythm of the son ... unique approach of incorporating the son into poetry was one of the aspects of his book Sóngoro consongo (1931) ...