Woman of the River - Bilingual Edition

"Permeated with tropical colors, smells, flowers, trees, volcanos, and people, these poems constitute a beautiful and moving collection, that will interest both undergraduate and undergraduate libraries."
"--Choice"

About the author

Claribel Alegria was born in Nicaragua in 1924, but she considers herself Salvadoran, having grown up in Santa Ana, El Salvador. She has published more than twenty books in Spanish. In 1978 her book of poems, Sobrevivo, won Cuba's Casa de las Americas Prize.

Summary

One of the major voices in Latin American poetry confronts the political realities of contemporary Central America. The poems are richly human documents rooted in Alegria's knowledge of and love for her subjects.

Product details

• Authors: Alegria, Claribel Alegria, Claribel Alegría
• Assisted by: Darwin Flakoll (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.12.1988
• EAN: 9780822954095
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-5409-5
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 215 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 137 g
• Series: Pitt Poetry (Paperback); Pitt Poetry Series; Pitt Poetry (Paperback); Pitt Poetry Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies