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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.

By:

Soto Velez, Clememte, , 1905-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Willimantic, CT : Curbstone Press ; East Haven, CT : Distributed by InBook , 1991.Edition: 1st editionDescription: 125 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

0915306786

Subject(s):

Puerto Rican poetry

DDC classification:

861 SOT

LOC classification:

MLCS 93/08021 (P)

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	861 SOT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		067018

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.

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