Author: Andrea O'Reilly Herrera
Publisher: White Pine Press (NY)
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
This book not only celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Secret Weavers series, but also provides teachers of multiethnic literature with a diverse range of Latin American women's voices addressing a wide variety of topics. The book includes work from the earliest writers to those who have recently established themselves as major voices in Latin American letters.
A Secret Weavers Anthology
Author: Andrea O'Reilly Herrera
Publisher: White Pine Press (NY)
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
This book not only celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Secret Weavers series, but also provides teachers of multiethnic literature with a diverse range of Latin American women's voices addressing a wide variety of topics. The book includes work from the earliest writers to those who have recently established themselves as major voices in Latin American letters.
Publisher: White Pine Press (NY)
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
This book not only celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Secret Weavers series, but also provides teachers of multiethnic literature with a diverse range of Latin American women's voices addressing a wide variety of topics. The book includes work from the earliest writers to those who have recently established themselves as major voices in Latin American letters.
Secret Weavers
Author: Marjorie Agosín
Publisher: White Pine Press (NY)
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
This anthology traces the history of fantastic literature in Chile and Argentina. The stories include fairy tales, science fiction, and metaphorical political tales.
Publisher: White Pine Press (NY)
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
This anthology traces the history of fantastic literature in Chile and Argentina. The stories include fairy tales, science fiction, and metaphorical political tales.
River of Sorrows
Author: Libertad Demitrópulos
Publisher: White Pine Press
ISBN: 9781877727887
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
A woman dresses like a man and goes to war in this lyrical novel of love, ambition, deceit, courage and tragedy.
Publisher: White Pine Press
ISBN: 9781877727887
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
A woman dresses like a man and goes to war in this lyrical novel of love, ambition, deceit, courage and tragedy.
Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral
Author: Gabriela Mistral
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chilean poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
"Gabriela Mistral writes from an intense simplicity of expression, image, and emotion and Langston Hughes profoundly understands that. Her poems really shine through in these translations. He pays much attention to the music and energy of her lines. This is something like a selection curated on a theme: over half of them deal with pregnancy, motherhood, and children; many are lullabies" --from Goodreads.com.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chilean poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
"Gabriela Mistral writes from an intense simplicity of expression, image, and emotion and Langston Hughes profoundly understands that. Her poems really shine through in these translations. He pays much attention to the music and energy of her lines. This is something like a selection curated on a theme: over half of them deal with pregnancy, motherhood, and children; many are lullabies" --from Goodreads.com.
Selected Poems
Author: Alfonsina Storni
Publisher: White Pine Press (NY)
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
"This collection is painful, disturbing, and rewarding. Freeman and three other translators transform Storni's razor-sharp poetry into English versions that invite constant rereading. This is a poetry of fatal beauty that leads toward unavoidable death, but not before freeing the poet to leave everything she can behind."--Ray Gonzalez, Bloomsbury Review
Publisher: White Pine Press (NY)
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
"This collection is painful, disturbing, and rewarding. Freeman and three other translators transform Storni's razor-sharp poetry into English versions that invite constant rereading. This is a poetry of fatal beauty that leads toward unavoidable death, but not before freeing the poet to leave everything she can behind."--Ray Gonzalez, Bloomsbury Review
Remaking a Lost Harmony
Author: Margarite Fernández Olmos
Publisher: White Pine Press
ISBN: 9781877727368
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Twenty-five short stories from the Hispanic Caribbean. In Pedro Peix's Requiem for a Wreathless Corpse, a family tries to capitalize on the death of a relative who was a famous guerrilla, while the story, Now That I'm Back, Ton, is on a man's disappointment following his return home.
Publisher: White Pine Press
ISBN: 9781877727368
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Twenty-five short stories from the Hispanic Caribbean. In Pedro Peix's Requiem for a Wreathless Corpse, a family tries to capitalize on the death of a relative who was a famous guerrilla, while the story, Now That I'm Back, Ton, is on a man's disappointment following his return home.
With Eyes and Soul
Author: Nancy Morejón
Publisher: White Pine Press
ISBN: 9781893996250
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Afro-Cuban poet and U.S. documentary photographer create a compelling portrait of Cuba.
Publisher: White Pine Press
ISBN: 9781893996250
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Afro-Cuban poet and U.S. documentary photographer create a compelling portrait of Cuba.
What is Secret
Author: Marjorie Agosín
Publisher: White Pine Press
ISBN: 9781877727412
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The only work of its kind in English or Spanish
Publisher: White Pine Press
ISBN: 9781877727412
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The only work of its kind in English or Spanish
A Woman in Her Garden
Author: Dulce María Loynaz
Publisher: White Pine Press
ISBN: 9781893996557
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A selection of work from all phases of this important Cuban poet's career.
Publisher: White Pine Press
ISBN: 9781893996557
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A selection of work from all phases of this important Cuban poet's career.
The Secret Under My Skin
Author: Janet McNaughton
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 1443453005
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
In the year 2368, humanity struggles to recuperate from a technocaust that has left a generation of orphans in its wake. Strict government regulations convince people that technology is dangerous; confusion and fear rule the earth. Blay Raytee is a government work-camp orphan. Her future seems as bleak as that of the world around her. But when she is chosen for a special mission by a guardian of the environment named Marrella, Blay begins to discover that all may not be as it seems. The secrets she uncovers could hold the key both to the healing of the world and to her own past. What she learns may just empower her to join those who struggle to restore democracy -- and to discover at last who she really is. Master storyteller Janet McNaughton vividly imagines an all-too-believable future where one child's brave search for the truth could restore a broken world.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 1443453005
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
In the year 2368, humanity struggles to recuperate from a technocaust that has left a generation of orphans in its wake. Strict government regulations convince people that technology is dangerous; confusion and fear rule the earth. Blay Raytee is a government work-camp orphan. Her future seems as bleak as that of the world around her. But when she is chosen for a special mission by a guardian of the environment named Marrella, Blay begins to discover that all may not be as it seems. The secrets she uncovers could hold the key both to the healing of the world and to her own past. What she learns may just empower her to join those who struggle to restore democracy -- and to discover at last who she really is. Master storyteller Janet McNaughton vividly imagines an all-too-believable future where one child's brave search for the truth could restore a broken world.