Riverbed of Memory (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) (Spanish Edition) - Softcover

Zamora, Daisy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0872862739 ISBN 13: 9780872862739

Publisher: City Lights Publishers, 2001

Synopsis

These are poems written mostly in a time of war, and rooted in the land and people of Nicaragua. Zamora draws deep portraits of women of all classes, often using her own body as a metaphor and starting point. Recalling the years of revolution and resistance to U.S. intervention, she follows the riverbed of her memories through the land of her childhood, mourns the devastation of war, and illuminates the heroic lives of ordinary men and women.

Daisy Zamora was program director of clandestine Radio Sandino during the revolution and later served as vice-minister of Culture in the Sandinista government. Zamora is a prominent figure in contemporary Latin American poetry. Her poems, essays, articles and translations have been published in magazines and literary newspapers throughout Latin America, the Caribbean, the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia and Vietnam. Her poems have appeared in more than fifty anthologies written in Spanish, English, French, German, Swedish, Italian, Bulgarian, Russian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Dutch, Flemish, Slovak and Czech. Her work is included in The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry. For the last several years, she has taught poetry workshops at a number of universities and colleges, and most recently as a lecturer for the Latin American & Latino Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has given poetry readings and lectures throughout the world, including many venues in the U.S., and was a featured artist in Bill Moyer’s PBS series "The Language of Life."

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Language Notes

Text: English, Spanish (translation)
Original Language: Spanish

Review

50 Verses Of Love And An Untold Confession For Ernesto
And I Cursed The Moon
Another Time
At The Foot Of The Goddess
Back In Mexico City
Beloved Aunt Chofi
Beloved Voices
Blanca Arauz
Cat
Cheers, Old Man
Childbirth
The Coconut Vendor
Daughter
Deathly Makeup
Door In My Memory
Downpour
Faithful Housewife
Family
Girl With Umbrella
Hand Mirror
Let Me Talk About My Women
Litanies For La Chanita
Lullaby For A Dead Newborn
Maria Denise
The Newsboy
Old Shoes
Otlia Ironing
Photo Caption
Pregnancy
Razed Earth
Reflecting On My Feet
A Report On The Protest In Front Of The United States Embassy ...
A Scattered Squad
Seamstress
The Waitress (1)
The Waitress (2)
The Waitress (3)
What Hands Through My Hands
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ

About this edition

• Publisher: City Lights Publishers
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0872862739
• ISBN 13: 9780872862739
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 132