WOMAN OF THE RIVER: Bilingual edition (Pitt Poetry Series) - Softcover

Fiell, Charlotte & Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822954095 ISBN 13: 9780822954095

Verlag: UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS, 1988

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Alegria Claribel

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Críticas:

"Alegria's vese is plainspoken, not at all given to elusive metaphor or dense language, as though her mission were too urgent for such roadblocks. Her tools are a keen visual memory (or as she says, 'anaconda eyes'), an ear for a good story, and a knack for building to a flourish. . . . Woman of the River shows that Claribel Alegr a has the grace to take new risks and land on her feet." --The Village Voice "A native of Nicaragua, Alegria can bare her deepest emotions, expressing love on one page and lashing out at the injustices served to people on the next. She is a political poet in the sense that common humanity and dignity rise above all intimacies of human life." --The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) "One of the major voices in Latin American poetry presents a collection of poems that address the political realities of contemporary Central America, containing many works that are political, direct, and critical of the United States' presence in Latin America." --Directions "As in her previous book of poems, Flowers from the Volcano, [Alegria] has demonstrated in Woman of the River that she possesses an uncanny ability to explore and unveil the most demonic forces that drain the vitality of the collective unconscious and threaten to turn everything that is beautiful and sacred about life into a profane hallucination. . . . the most luminous voice of contemporary Central American poetry to resonate on the northern shores of this hemisphere." --Poetry Flash "This bilingual collection directly addresses expatriate Alegria's political ideology and, by means of vibrant, effective images, elevates it to an aesthetic plane." --Library Journal "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." --Publishers Weekly "Permeated with tropical colors, smells, flowers, trees, volcanos, and people, these poems constitute a beautiful and moving collection, that will interest both undergraduate and undergraduate libraries." --Choice

Reseña del editor:

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."

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• Verlag: UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0822954095
• ISBN 13: 9780822954095
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 112