Round 1: Tossup 11

A poem from this country ends by describing the resounding wood of “the tree we planted for communism.” A boy from this country is warned not to fall in love with a “‘Merican gal” in the poem “Don’t Know No English.” The speaker descends a blue mountain “to put an end to capitalists and usurers, / to generals and bourgeois” in a poem from this non-Senegal country titled “Black Woman.” Langston Hughes translated a poet from this country who wrote the collection Motifs of (*) Son (“SOHN”). The refrain “¡Mayombe-bombe-mayombé!” (10[1])is chanted in a poem from this country about the sacrifice of a snake, “Sensemayá.” A poem from this country begins “A sincere man am I / From the land where palm trees grow.” For 10 points, name this home country of Nancy Morejón, Nicolás Guillén, and José Martí, who wrote “Guantanamera.” (10[1])■END■

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