Woman Of The River: Bilingual edition (Pitt Poetry (Paperback)) (English and Spanish Edition)
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (704 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0822954095 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 95 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-03 |
| Language | : | Spanish |
DESCRIPTION:
In Woman of the River one of the major voices in Latin American poetry confronts the political realities of contemporary Central America. Many of the poems are political, direct, and condemnatory of the United States’ presence in Latin America, and they are rich, human documents rooted in Alegria’s knowledge of and love for her subjects. As Carolyn Forche has written of Alegria’s previous selection of poems, Flowers from the Volcano: These poems are testimonies to the value of a single human memory, political in the sense that there is no life apart from our common destiny. They are poems of passionate witness and confrontation. Responding to those who would state that politics has no place in poetry, she would add her voice to that of Neruda’s: we do not wish to please them .” She carries within her the ancient blood of the Pipiles and laces her language with mesitizo richness.”
From Publishers Weekly The noted author of Flowers from the Volcano speaks of political realities with an impassioned objectivity in these poems about Central America, which confront the loss of lives as well as the slow extinction of spirit, of a culture's mythology, when war and political tyranny invade the heart of both private and public worlds. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. . The urgency in this poem epitomizes Alegria's style throughout her bilingual collectionthere is a focusing on those deta
Great book of poems A great book of poems! But I could not get to the end! Why? The last 10 pages were missing in the two editions that I had to return.***Beware that the last 10 pages or so may be missing. (Manufacturer’s defect.)