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008			110901s1983 cau 000 0 eng
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050	0	0	_aPQ7477.E5 _bV64 1983
082	0	0	_a861.08 VOL
245	0	0	_aVolcán _b: poems from Central America : a bilingual anthology _c/ edited by Alejandro Murguia and Barbara Paschke
260			_aSan Francisco _b: City Lights Books _c, c1983.
300			_axii, 159 p. _c; 21 cm.
500			_aEnglish and Spanish.
520			_aA 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.
650		0	_aPoetry, Central American _y--20th Century _x--Translations into English
700	1		_aMurguía, Alejandro _d, 1949-
700	1		_aPaschke, Barbara
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