wyszukanych pozycji: 17
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Halting Steps: Collected and New Poems
ISBN: 9780810129191 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) "Halting Steps" represents the most complete single-volume retrospective in English of Claribel Alegria s seven-decade career. The volume collects all of Alegria s poems from her fourteen previously published books and debuts several new poems under the title Otherness. Alegria was born in Nicaragua during the United States occupation of that country. Alegria s family opposed the occupation and moved to El Salvador, where she grew up. Her poetry is not only lyrical and introspective but also politically engaged. Her verse has always spoken forcefully, specifically, and fearlessly to matters...
"Halting Steps" represents the most complete single-volume retrospective in English of Claribel Alegria s seven-decade career. The volume collects all...
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78,15 zł |
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Otredad Otherness
ISBN: 9780982696880 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Claribel Alegria, born in Esteli, Nicaragua, in 1924, is one of the great voices in twentieth-century Latin American poetry. She left her family's Nicaraguan coffee plantation to spend her childhood in exile in El Salvador. Her writing of the 1950s and 1960s reflects the views of the "Committed Generation" of Central America, seeking social and political justice for its citizens. She shared the Casas de las Americas poetry prize in 1978 with Nicaraguan poet Gioconda Belli. In 1979, when the Sandinistas overthrew the Somoza regime, she returned to Nicaragua to help it rebuild. While both... Claribel Alegria, born in Esteli, Nicaragua, in 1924, is one of the great voices in twentieth-century Latin American poetry. She left her family's ... |
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61,69 zł |
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Death of Somoza
ISBN: 9781880684269 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Death of Somoza reveals the inside story of the assassination of Somoza in Asuncion, Paraguay in 1980. Alegria and Flakoll, on the recommendation of Julio Cortazar, met "Ramon", a leader in the Argentinian Revolutionary Workers' Party (PRT) and with his help were able to interview all the survivors of the commando team that carried out the "bringing to justice" of Somoza. Alegria and Flakoll then rewove these testimonies into a narrative that reads like a thriller, as well as giving a vivid picture of the political and social climate of the time. Enlivened by its colorful cast of characters,...
Death of Somoza reveals the inside story of the assassination of Somoza in Asuncion, Paraguay in 1980. Alegria and Flakoll, on the recommendation of J...
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68,38 zł |
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Woman Of The River: Bilingual edition
ISBN: 9780822954095 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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....
In Woman of the River one of the major voices in Latin American poetry confronts the political realities of contemporary Central America. Many ...
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77,07 zł |
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Fugues
ISBN: 9781880684108 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 143 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Well-known for her incisive descriptions of war and violence in El Salvador, Claribel Alegria is one of Central America's most eminent poets. In Fugues, a lucid and strikingly beautiful original collection, she looks squarely into the face of mortality, love, and aging, to explore the personal as well as universal questions that face each human being.
Well-known for her incisive descriptions of war and violence in El Salvador, Claribel Alegria is one of Central America's most eminent poets. In Fu...
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63,49 zł |
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Family Album
ISBN: 9780915306947 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 191 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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63,49 zł |
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Sorrow
ISBN: 9781880684634 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Sorrow Claribel Alegria Sorrow is a remarkable collection of love poems which Alegria wrote for her recently deceased husband. The poems are not only a recollection of their past, but also meditations on the meaning of death and the pain of separation as well as reflections on their eventual reunion. Most of the poems are brief piercing lyrics which radiate strength and optimism.
Sorrow Claribel Alegria Sorrow is a remarkable collection of love poems which Alegria wrote for her recently deceased husband. The poems are not only ...
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63,49 zł |
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Blood Pact & Other Stories
ISBN: 9781880684399 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This collection -- "A brilliant fingerprint of the city of Montevideo" (Eduardo Galeano) -- includes the best of renowned Uruguayan writer Mane Benedetti's stories from over 40 years of publishing. In these stories of powerful sudden impact, Benedetti plumbs with deep psychological insight both the dreams and frustrations of the middle-class in a bureaucratic society, as well as the pain and disorientation of political exile. In his On Arts And Professions, Benedetti wrote, "the effect of the short story is the surprise, the astonishment, the revelation."
This collection -- "A brilliant fingerprint of the city of Montevideo" (Eduardo Galeano) -- includes the best of renowned Uruguayan writer Mane Benede...
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78,15 zł |
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Casting Off
ISBN: 9781880684986 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Now in her 70s, Claribel Alegria is universally recognized as the major living poet of El Salvador. "Casting Off "extends the themes Alegria explored in "Sorrow" the loss of a loved one, solitude, and reflections on the past. As the title -implies, this collection is also a lyric farewell: "My footsteps are leading / toward quiet solitude / toward the star-silence / that has no more questions." She is becoming increasingly well-known in the U.S. as a result of her many tours, readings, and residencies. She will return to the U.S. in the spring to promote "Casting Off." The English... Now in her 70s, Claribel Alegria is universally recognized as the major living poet of El Salvador. "Casting Off "extends the themes Alegria explor... |
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63,49 zł |
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Cenizas de Izalco
ISBN: 9781508497714 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 2015 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Cenizas de Izalco es la historia de un amor prohibido en el pequeno pueblo de Santa Ana, El Salvador. El telon de fondo de este amor entre un periodista norteamericano y una mujer de la burguesia salvadorena es el levantamiento campesino lidereado por Farabundo Marti que termino en la masacre de 1932. Esta novela forma parte del Boom latinoamericano y ha sido libro de texto de secundaria en El Salvador desde 1970."
Cenizas de Izalco es la historia de un amor prohibido en el pequeno pueblo de Santa Ana, El Salvador. El telon de fondo de este amor entre un periodis...
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31,56 zł |
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Thresholds / Umbrales: Poems
ISBN: 9781880684368 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 70 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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63,49 zł |
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Tunnel to Canto Grande
ISBN: 9781880684344 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Tunnel to Canto Grande tells the dramatic story of how the Peruvian Tupac Amuru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) tunneled into an "escape proof" penitentiary, Canto Grande, to free forty-eight political prisoners on July 9, 1990. The prisoners escaped through the tunnel without a single casualty and eluded the authorities. Because of their world-wide reputation as writers of testimony, the authors, Alegria and Flakoll, were invited by MRTA leaders to write the exclusive story of the escape. At no small risk to their own safety, they spent a week in the most hunted-for safehouse in Lima, Peru,...
Tunnel to Canto Grande tells the dramatic story of how the Peruvian Tupac Amuru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) tunneled into an "escape proof" penitent...
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58,60 zł |
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On the Front Line: Guerilla Poems of El Salvador
ISBN: 9780915306862 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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48,83 zł |
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Ashes of Izalco
ISBN: 9780915306848 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Written in two voices, "Ashes of Izalco" is a collaborative novel by Claribel Alegrfa and Darwin Flakoll, a love story set against the events of 1932 when thirty thousand Indians and peasants were massacred in Izalco, El Salvador. "Ashes of Izalco" brings together a Salvadoran woman and an American man who together struggle over issues of love, loyalty and socio-political injustices.
Written in two voices, "Ashes of Izalco" is a collaborative novel by Claribel Alegrfa and Darwin Flakoll, a love story set against the events of 1932 ...
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53,72 zł |
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Somoza: Expediente cerrado: Historia de un tiranicidio
ISBN: 9798395352507 / Hiszpański Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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40,47 zł |
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Pasos Inciertos: Antologia 1948 - 2014
ISBN: 9781507874370 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 2015 / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Claribel Alegria's most complete anthology that spans from her first published poems in 1948 to her last in 2014. This anthology was selected by Claribel.
Claribel Alegria's most complete anthology that spans from her first published poems in 1948 to her last in 2014. This anthology was selected by Clari...
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60,69 zł |
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Luisa in Realityland
ISBN: 9781477649510 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Claribel Alegria combines poetry, fiction, and historical narrative about her early childhood in Santa Ana, El Salvador.
Claribel Alegria combines poetry, fiction, and historical narrative about her early childhood in Santa Ana, El Salvador.
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36,41 zł |