Halting Steps - Collected and New Poems

Informationen zum Autor Claribel Alegría was a Salvadorian-Nicaraguan poet, essayist, novelist, and journalist who was a major voice in the literature of contemporary Central America. She has been called "one of the region's finest writers" by The Washington Post . Alegría published over forty books, including fifteen collections of poetry, and was a recipient of the Casa de las Americas Prize of Cuba. Her works in English include Ashes of Izalco, Luisa in Realityland, and Family Album. She was awarded the 2006 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. She died in 2018. Klappentext Provides the most complete single-volume retrospective in English of Claribel Alegría's seven-decade career. The volume collects all of Alegría's poems from her fourteen previously published books and debuts several new poems under the title "Otherness”. Zusammenfassung Provides the most complete single-volume retrospective in English of Claribel Alegria's seven-decade career. The volume collects all of Alegria's poems from her fourteen previously published books and debuts several new poems under the title "Otherness".

Product details

• Authors: Claribel Alegria, Claribel Alegría
• Assisted by: Darwin J. Flakoll (Translation), Carolyn Forché (Translation)
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.08.2013
• EAN: 9780810129191
• ISBN: 978-0-8101-2919-1
• No. of pages: 261
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry