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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Author: Agnes B. Poor
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ISBN: 9780849024009
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Languages : en
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Author: Muna Lee
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299202347
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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The extraordinary Muna Lee was a brilliant writer, lyric poet, translator, diplomat, feminist and rights activist, and, above all, a Pan-Americanist. During the twentieth century, she helped shape the literary and social landscapes of the Americas. This is the first biography of her remarkable life and a collection of her diverse writings, which embody her vision of Pan America, an old concept that remains new and meaningful today.

Author: Rubén Darío
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292789572
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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Toward the close of the last century, the poetry of the Spanish-speaking world was pallid, feeble, almost a corpse. It needed new life and a new direction. The exotic, erratic, revolutionary poet who changed the course of Spanish poetry and brought it into the mainstream of twentieth-century Modernism was Félix Rubén García Sarmiento (1867-1916) of Nicaragua, who called himself Rubén Darío. Since its original publication in 1965, this edition of Darío's poetry has made English-speaking readers better acquainted with the poet who, as Enrique Anderson Imbert said, "divides literary history into 'before' and 'after.'" The selection of poems is intended to represent the whole range of Darío's verse, from the stinging little poems of Thistles to the dark, brooding lines of Songs of the Argentine and Other Poems. Also included, in the Epilogue, is a transcript of a radio dialogue between two other major poets, Federico García Lorca of Spain and Pablo Neruda of Chile, who celebrate the rich legacy of Rubén Darío.

Author: Muna Lee
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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The extraordinary Muna Lee was a brilliant writer, lyric poet, translator, diplomat, feminist and rights activist, and, above all, a Pan-Americanist. During the twentieth century, she helped shape the literary and social landscapes of the Americas. This is the first biography of her remarkable life and a collection of her diverse writings, which embody her vision of Pan America, an old concept that remains new and meaningful today.

Author: Ilan Stavans
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374533180
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 769

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Presents a diverse sample of twentieth century Latin American poems from eighty-four authors in Spanish, Portuguese, Ladino, Spanglish, and several indigenous languages with English translations on facing pages.

Author: William F. H. Stephenson
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Category : Buffalo (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Robert Cameron Rogers
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780483938533
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 26

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Excerpt from Poem Delivered at the Dedication of the Pan-American Exposition Reat Sister of a peerless sisterhood, Dear Sovereign of a sovereign people's realm, Thou whose strong hand first gripped the waiting helm Of the bright ship whose chart reads - Liberty And turned her prow into the Western sea, We, in thy name, and as thy people should, With arms extended, and the door Wide thrown, Welcome thy sisters of the mighty name, To all that thou hast willed should be our own. To thee - to them - thy sisters, not in blood, But of one heart, of purposes the same, Throughout whose veins exults the untamed flood That drives the pulse of all who would be free, This labour of our hands and brains and hearts, Man's palm in Nature's struck and hers in Art's, At the chief Commonwealth's fair farthest gate We dedicate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Gabriela Mistral
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292778597
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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The first Latin American to receive a Nobel Prize for Literature, the Chilean writer Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) is often characterized as a healing, maternal voice who spoke on behalf of women, indigenous peoples, the disenfranchised, children, and the rural poor. She is that political poet and more: a poet of philosophical meditation, self-consciousness, and daring. This is a book full of surprises and paradoxes. The complexity and structural boldness of these prose-poems, especially the female-erotic prose pieces of her first book, make them an important moment in the history of literary modernism in a tradition that runs from Baudelaire, the North American moderns, and the South American postmodernistas. It's a book that will be eye-opening and informative to the general reader as well as to students of gender studies, cultural studies, literary history, and poetry. This Spanish-English bilingual volume gathers the most famous and representative prose writings of Gabriela Mistral, which have not been as readily available to English-only readers as her poetry. The pieces are grouped into four sections. "Fables, Elegies, and Things of the Earth" includes fifteen of Mistral's most accessible prose-poems. "Prose and Prose-Poems from Desolación / Desolation [1922]" presents all the prose from Mistral's first important book. "Lyrical Biographies" are Mistral's poetic meditations on Saint Francis and Sor Juana de la Cruz. "Literary Essays, Journalism, 'Messages'" collects pieces that reveal Mistral's opinions on a wide range of subjects, including the practice of teaching; the writers Alfonso Reyes, Alfonsina Storni, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Pablo Neruda; Mistral's own writing practices; and her social beliefs. Editor/translator Stephen Tapscott rounds out the volume with a chronology of Mistral's life and a brief introduction to her career and prose.

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Category : Latin American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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