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Volcán : poems from Central America : a bilingual anthology / edited by Alejandro Murguia and Barbara Paschke

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: San Francisco : City Lights Books , c1983.Description: xii, 159 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

0872861538

Subject(s):

Poetry, Central American -- --20th Century -- --Translations into English

DDC classification:

861.08 VOL

LOC classification:

PQ7477.E5 V64 1983

Summary: A contact bomb, a volcano ready to erupt" describes not only Central America in the 1980s but-in the conception of its editors-this anthology of contraband poetry. The poems themselves were often copied by hand and smuggled onto Mexico, from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua. In all those countries, except Nicaragua, this poetry is banned. The thirty-nine poets represented here give potent voice to the struggles of their peoples under the crushing oppression of life "under the volcano" in these war-stunned lands. Many of these women and men have been jailed, exiled, killed, or otherwise made to disappear. Still they survive in these faithful and sensitive translations by a new literary underground in North America.

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Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	861.08 VOL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		046119

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English and Spanish.

A contact bomb, a volcano ready to erupt" describes not only Central America in the 1980s but-in the conception of its editors-this anthology of contraband poetry. The poems themselves were often copied by hand and smuggled onto Mexico, from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua. In all those countries, except Nicaragua, this poetry is banned. The thirty-nine poets represented here give potent voice to the struggles of their peoples under the crushing oppression of life "under the volcano" in these war-stunned lands. Many of these women and men have been jailed, exiled, killed, or otherwise made to disappear. Still they survive in these faithful and sensitive translations by a new literary underground in North America.

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