Instituto del Libro - Colección Poesía (cover art: Raúl Martínez; editors: Evaristo García Álvarez and Marina García), "Poemas al Che," September 1969.

"Poemas al Che" is a poetry anthology published by Cuba's Instituto del Libro in September 1969, two years after the death of Ernesto "Che" Guevara, featuring a striking pop-art cover designed by Cuban artist Raúl Martínez. The cover presents a bold, Warhol-inspired composition with repeated portraits of Che Guevara rendered in vibrant orange and pink tones against blue backgrounds, arranged in a grid of five faces framed by a golden-yellow border. Yellow stars—echoing both the Cuban flag and revolutionary iconography—punctuate the composition, while the title "POEMAS AL CHE" appears in heavy black sans-serif letters on a yellow band. A cream-colored star replaces the letter "A" in "AL CHE," adding a playful yet reverent design element. This visual treatment transforms Che into an icon of popular culture while maintaining revolutionary gravitas.

Published in the "Año del Esfuerzo Decisivo" (Year of Decisive Effort), the book was printed on September 19, 1969, at the Unidad 08 "Mario Reguera Gómez" of the Instituto del Libro, with an edition of 25,000 copies overseen by Evaristo García Álvarez and Marina García. The anthology collects poems dedicated to Che Guevara by various Latin American poets, reflecting the widespread mourning and mythologization of the revolutionary figure across the continent following his execution in Bolivia in 1967. Raúl Martínez's cover design exemplifies the synthesis of international pop art aesthetics with Cuban revolutionary iconography that characterized the visual culture of the early revolutionary period, when Cuban designers creatively adapted Western modernist styles to serve revolutionary purposes.