Reeditado en multiples ocasiones y durante varios anos material de lectura en universidades norteamericanas, "Luisa en el pais de la realidad" es, segun palabras de la autora, "un libro de disgresiones, de realidad y de suenos. En mi itinerario poetico es el libro que mas quiero.""
Reeditado en multiples ocasiones y durante varios anos material de lectura en universidades norteamericanas, "Luisa en el pais de la realidad" es, seg...
"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...
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...
A novel that blends politics, history and romance with unfailing gentleness, unforeseeable, explosive events determine the actions of the characters but never interrupt the work's lyrical structure. Carmen Rojas, the heroine, was a child when, in 1932, she witnessed the brutality of the El Salvadoran National Guard, who murdered 30,000 rioting peasants. The tragedy shapes her political consciousness, and, although she marries an American and lives in Washington, D.C., she cannot escape its memory. Thirty years later, she returns home to attend her mother's funeral and to care for her sickly...
A novel that blends politics, history and romance with unfailing gentleness, unforeseeable, explosive events determine the actions of the characters b...
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...