The blood that keeps singing : selected poems of Clemente Soto Vélez
Soto Velez, Clememte , 1905-
The blood that keeps singing : selected poems of Clemente Soto Vélez / translated by Martín Espada and Camilo Pérez-Bustillo = La sangre que sigue cantando / traducción de Martín Espada and Camilo Pérez-Bustillo. - 1st edition - Willimantic, CT East Haven, CT : Curbstone Press ; : Distributed by InBook , 1991. - 125 p. ; 22 cm.
This is the first collection in English translation of poems by the 86- year old dean of Puerto Rican poets, Clemente Soto Velez. These are poems that explore such topics as liberation, solitude, and the 'promised land' - Soto Velez approaches these themes with a firm and precise hand - his explorations are at once intensely personal and universally applicable. In this bilingual book which offers a selection of his poetry drawn from Soto Velez's published works dating back to 1937, we are given the scope of the poet's life, his struggles and accomplishments.
0915306786
91055409
Puerto Rican poetry
MLCS 93/08021 (P)
861 SOT
The blood that keeps singing : selected poems of Clemente Soto Vélez / translated by Martín Espada and Camilo Pérez-Bustillo = La sangre que sigue cantando / traducción de Martín Espada and Camilo Pérez-Bustillo. - 1st edition - Willimantic, CT East Haven, CT : Curbstone Press ; : Distributed by InBook , 1991. - 125 p. ; 22 cm.
This is the first collection in English translation of poems by the 86- year old dean of Puerto Rican poets, Clemente Soto Velez. These are poems that explore such topics as liberation, solitude, and the 'promised land' - Soto Velez approaches these themes with a firm and precise hand - his explorations are at once intensely personal and universally applicable. In this bilingual book which offers a selection of his poetry drawn from Soto Velez's published works dating back to 1937, we are given the scope of the poet's life, his struggles and accomplishments.
0915306786
91055409
Puerto Rican poetry
MLCS 93/08021 (P)
861 SOT
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