State of Exile (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) (Spanish Edition)
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (831 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0872864634 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-15 |
| Language | : | Spanish |
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She was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, and left the country in 1972, moving to Spain, where she became a citizen in 1975. She continues her activism and writing from her prison cell, where she edited Wild Poppies, an anthology of prison poetry, and published Rescue the Word, a collection of her own poems.. Considered a leading light of the post-1960s per
She continues her activism and writing from her prison cell, where she edited Wild Poppies, an anthology of prison poetry, and published Rescue the Word, a collection of her own poems.. About the AuthorConsidered a leading light of the post-1960s period of prominence of the Latin-American novel, Peri Rossi is the author of Ship of Fools, and 36 other works. Marilyn Buck is a writer, translator and political activist, currently serving an 80-year jail sentence for her political activities in the U.S. She was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, and left the country in 1972, moving to Spain, where she became a citizen in 1975
In 1972, after her work was banned under a repressive military regime, she left her country, moving to Spain.This collection of poems, written during her journey and the first period of her self-exile, was so personal that it remained unpublished for almost thirty years. Cristina Peri Rossi was born in Uruguay and is considered a leading light of the “Latin American Boom” generation. It is accompanied here by two brilliant essays on exile, one by Peri Rossi and the other by translator Marilyn Buck, who is an American political prisoner, exiled in her own land.Cristina Pe
"A profoundly emotional work" according to Midwest Book Review. Number fifty-eight in the compact "Pocket Poets Series" from City Lights Publishers, State of Exile is an impressive collection of poems by Cristina Peri Rossi, whose work was banned in her native Uruguay. Threatened by Uruguay's military dictatorship, she moved to Spain in 1972, where she resides today. State of Exile was written during he. Resonant loss and exile echoing down from the 1970s S. Foster Terrific translations Marilyn Buck ("Free Marilyn Buck," said a poster someone had on a high window I saw on driving through San Francisco this month)---early award-winning poems of exile, loss and resistance. Tough, tender, tensile.