In a poetry at once political, erotic, and powerfully lyrical, Floyce Alexander writes, as he told Rolling Stone, of "a generation of orphans . . . our legacy an American dream become more than a nightmare, a death to be lived through, with whatever utopia that may be possible our only common integer of survival."
In a poetry at once political, erotic, and powerfully lyrical, Floyce Alexander writes, as he told Rolling Stone, of "a generation of orphan...
On July 19, 1979 the Nicaraguan people, under the banner of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, overthrew the 40-year-long Somoza family tyranny. Amongst those playing major roles in this popular revolution were many of the nation's leading poets and writers. Today, these men and women are focusing their creativity on the tasks of constructing a new nation and a new Nicaraguan culture. Through these interviews with 14 of Nicaragua's most important writers/revolutionaries we come to learn thatNicaragua's revolution, like its poetry, is an expression of great love, imagination and...
On July 19, 1979 the Nicaraguan people, under the banner of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, overthrew the 40-year-long Somoza family tyranny...
The poetry of Floyce Alexander has a great dark undertow one associates with the work of Lorca, Vallejo, and Pablo Neruda. It is erotic, politically charged, humane, sometimes angry, often tender and always seeming to come from deep in the earth, or deep in the history of the human struggle to love in the face of the brutality of systems, the ignorance of mobs, the fragility of the body, and the ordinary luck of the draw. This volume, bringing together work from his eight previous collections, makes clear, at last, the scope of Alexander's concerns and magnitude of his talent and...
The poetry of Floyce Alexander has a great dark undertow one associates with the work of Lorca, Vallejo, and Pablo Neruda. It is erotic, politicall...
