Clean slate : new & selected poems / Daisy Zamora ; translated by Margaret Randall & Elinor Randall

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Willimatic, Conn. : Curbstone Press , 1993.Edition: 1st edDescription: 193 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 1880684098
Uniform titles:
  • En limpio se escribe la vida . English & Spanish
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 861 ZAM
LOC classification:
  • PQ7519.2.Z35 E513 1993
Summary: This first collection of Zamora's work to appear in English is set primarily in the context of the Nicaraguan struggles. Central to this bilingual volume is a probing long poem that juxtaposes a Sandinista Radio report of the day's battles for control of Nicaragua with the speaker's more intimate memories: her grandfather's porch, the church services of her childhood. An active revolutionary, Zamora, in many of her shorter political poems, which comprise a quarter of the volume, unfortunately verges on the didactic. However, through her introspective early work, as well as through previously uncollected recent poems, we see the poet at her lyrical best. Early on, Zamora writes of "this everyday love'' and of the woman who feels a "flutter of seeds'' in her stomach at her lover's approach. But during the political upheavals she begins to take note of the strength in the women around her.
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This first collection of Zamora's work to appear in English is set primarily in the context of the Nicaraguan struggles. Central to this bilingual volume is a probing long poem that juxtaposes a Sandinista Radio report of the day's battles for control of Nicaragua with the speaker's more intimate memories: her grandfather's porch, the church services of her childhood. An active revolutionary, Zamora, in many of her shorter political poems, which comprise a quarter of the volume, unfortunately verges on the didactic. However, through her introspective early work, as well as through previously uncollected recent poems, we see the poet at her lyrical best. Early on, Zamora writes of "this everyday love'' and of the woman who feels a "flutter of seeds'' in her stomach at her lover's approach. But during the political upheavals she begins to take note of the strength in the women around her.

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