Cardinal in My Window with a Mask on Its Beak/ Cardenal en mi ventana con una mascara en el pico: The 2021 Ambroggio Prize - Softcover

Aguasaco, Carlos

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816545154 ISBN 13: 9780816545155

Verlag: University of Arizona Press, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

"This is the poetry of an American by choice, the insightful voice of a first-generation immigrant to the United States. It is a journey both fantastical and real, revealing shocking and necessary insights into humanity while establishing a transatlanticdialogue with the great voices of the Spanish Renaissance. Cardinal in my Window with a Mask on its Beak's lyrical voice travels a trajectory of social-justice-based poetic portraits of historical migrants such as Ota Benga, Sarah Baartman, Isidro Marcelino Orbâes, Cesar Vallejo, and Gertrude Stein among others. With a raw, unapologetic voice, the book leads the readers to question their role in today's society. Moreover, these verses force the reader to examine what it means to have social justice in this, our globalized world, as they confront us with our treatment of the Other, be that the immigrant or the indigenous person or anyone embodying Otherness. Author Carlos Aguasaco embraces his trans-border/trans-national/intercultural identity building a transatlantic bridge across time and distance uniting the great voices of the Renaissance with his lyrical chant and dialogue with Spanish authors such as Juan Boscâan, Francisco de Quevedo, Garcilaso de la Vega, and Sor Juana Inâes de la Cruz. The resurgence of this new spirit of the Renaissance is incarnated by this poetry that examines the fundamental liberties inherent in humankind. This quest for freedom leads the poetic voice to openly criticize the treatment of immigrants in the United States. For example, one poem addresses the caged immigrant children along the US-Mexico border in parallel depiction of the inhumane treatment of African Ota Benga"--

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Carlos Aguasaco is a professor of Latin American cultural studies and chair of the Department of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the City College of New York (CUNY). His most recent poetry book is The New York City Subway Poems.

Jennifer Rathbun, a professor of Spanish and chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Classics at Ball State University, has published sixteen books of poetry in translation; two anthologies of poetry; and the poetry collection The Book of Betrayals. Rathbun completed her PhD at the University of Arizona.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Arizona Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0816545154
• ISBN 13: 9780816545155
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 102
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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