Breathing Between the Lines - Poems

In Breathing Between the Lines, the writer returns to poetry, her first love. From childhood, writing poems has been both a refuge and a release through the power of her own imagination. In 1988, however, Martinez's poetry was used against her in a federal indictment for smuggling Salvadoran refugees into the United States. The incriminating poem carried this punch line: "In my country, we sing of a baby in a manger, finance death squads". Seven long months later, she was acquitted. After the trial - "a poet's nightmare, in which words, so full of liberating possibilities, were twisted and used against me" - Martinez's poetry dried up. Years passed before "the miracle" of writing finally brought her reconciliation and a return to sanity from the searing experience. Once again, poetry now drives her life, fills her days, and gives meaning to a world gone crazy.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Demetria Martínez is the author of the novel Mother Tongue, which won the 1994 Western States Book Award for fiction. She writes a national monthly column for the National Catholic Reporter and is involved in the Arizona Border Rights Project, which documents abuses by the U.S. Border Patrol. She lives in Tucson.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Demetria Martinez, Demetria Martínez
• Verlag: The University of Arizona Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.01.1997
• EAN: 9780816517985
• ISBN: 978-0-8165-1798-5
• Seiten: 61
• Abmessung: 142 mm x 237 mm x 6 mm
• Gewicht: 136 g
• Serie: Camino del Sol
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft