When Shawn Doubiago graduated from high school, she and her mother Sharon, embarked on a journey through Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. In Cuzco, Peru, standing before an alter where the Incas had sacrifced their female virgins, the daughter asked, Are there any good men? "South American Mi Hija" is Sharon Doubiago s reply.
Set amidst the mysteries and tragedies of South American culture, this book-length narrative poem is both an account of their journey and a feminist exploration of the struggle between the sexes."
When Shawn Doubiago graduated from high school, she and her mother Sharon, embarked on a journey through Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. In Cuzco, Per...
Poetry. Hailed by a host of writers on its first publication in 1982, HARD COUNTRY went out of print in 1987 but has continued to enjoy an underground reputation. In reissuing this book, West End Press salutes one of the most dynamic and moving American poems of the latter half of the twentieth century. A tree sprouts/ from my buried heart/ America's images take place in my bones/ in the world's valley, low/ and open. One great poem, an epic poem in the proper sense, a personal journey but also the foundation myth of a culture: the seeker is the American earth herself incarnate in the voice...
Poetry. Hailed by a host of writers on its first publication in 1982, HARD COUNTRY went out of print in 1987 but has continued to enjoy an underground...
"Love on the Streets" is a selection from two of Doubiago's book-length poems, "Hard Country" and "South America Mi Hija" and from the collections "Psyche Drives the Coast" and "Body and Soul," plus new poems. "Hard Country" takes place in 1976, on a journey across the U.S. with a lover, climaxing on the lake where his mother drowned herself when he was ten. "South America Mi Hija" is a journey the poet made with her 15 year-old daughter to Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. "Psyche Drives the Coast" are poems written while Doubiago lived mainly on the road, and in diverse, passionate communities of...
"Love on the Streets" is a selection from two of Doubiago's book-length poems, "Hard Country" and "South America Mi Hija" and from the collections "Ps...
