Looking Within/Mirar Adentro: Selected Poems, 1954-2000 by Nancy Morejon (Spanis

Description: Looking Within/Mirar Adentro by Nancy Morejon, Juanamaria Cordones-Cook The African Cuban poet Nancy Morejon set out at a young age to explore the beauty and complexities of the life around and within her. This anthology contains poems which present themes icluding: social and political concern, African identity, womens experiences, and hope for Cubas future. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE Spanish CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The African Cuban poet Nancy Morejon set out at a young age to explore the beauty and complexities of the life around and within her. Themes of social and political concern, loyalty, friendship and family, African identity, womens experiences, and hope for Cubas future all found their way into her poems through bold metaphor and tender lyricism. This panoramic anthology, selected from ten volumes of Morejons work and organized by theme, contains some poems that have already been acclaimed in several languages, others that are less known, and some never before published. Overall they present to Morejons readership an enhanced, broader, and updated spectrum of her poetry in a Spanish-English edition. Although Morejon does not sympathize as much with intellectualized feminism as with ""street"" feminism (the kind that erupts with force as it confronts daily life), her poems illuminate issues in womens existence. Without intending to, she has revitalized contemporary Caribbean feminist literary discourse. One can find in her work the tensions between colonizer and colonized, dominator and dominated, and at the same time enjoy the sheer beauty of images depicting suffering, strength, and hope. Poet, essayist, critic, editor, journalist, and translator, Nancy Morejon was born in the Los Sitios district of Central Havana in 1944. Her first book, Mutismos, was published in 1962, and she has collaborated throughout her career with leading musicians, playwrights, and actors. She has recently extended her artistic talents into the plastic arts. Morejon now directs the Caribbean Studies Center at Casa de las Americas, Havana, epicenter of Cuban and Latin American intelligentsia. Author Biography Juanamaria Cordones-Cook is associate professor at University of Missouri, Columbia. She is author of Teatro negro uruguayo (Editorial Graffiti, 1996) and Poctica de transgresion en la novelistica de Luisa Valenzuela (Peter Lang Publishing, 1991). Member of the Uruguayan Academy of Letters. Review As a whole, the volume offers readers in both Spanish and English an opportunity to become acquainted in depth with the work of a poet, who, as Ruth Behar has commented, has opened bridges in many directions (Bridges to Cuba/Puentes a Cuba). Morejón well deserves the many bridges that I hope Looking Within / Mirar Adentro will open for her."-- "African American Review"Every student of literature and anyone else, anywhere in the world, who would claim to have any reading habits and some appreciation of poetry, must read Nancy Morejón. For your reading pleasure, your intellectual, emotional or spiritual enrichment, Nancy Morejóns poetry is as much a necessity as the food we need to nourish our bodies.--Keorapetse Kgositsile "University of California, Los Angeles"Looking Within is a powerful book of selected poems and a wonderful contribution to the world of literature. Morejóns poetry is infused with an understanding of her African heritage and modern Cuban identity. Her poems capture the essence of encounters with family, friends, literature, art, landscapes, politics, history and Cuban reality. Her poems are lyrical, compassionate, complex and dazzling in their subtleties. This fine translated version of her work will encourage more research, more critical analysis and more dialogue among scholars of poetry and Latin American culture.--Jayne Cortez "poet"This bilingual presentation and anthology of poems by Nancy Morejon...is a true celebration of her verse...Readers of both languages will rejoice.--Mary G. Berg "Harvard University" Promotional A bilingual edition of poetry from an important Cuban poet. Review Quote This bilingual presentation and anthology of poems by Nancy Morejon...is a true celebration of her verse...Readers of both languages will rejoice. Promotional "Headline" A bilingual edition of poetry from an important Cuban poet. Details ISBN081433038X Author Juanamaria Cordones-Cook Publisher Wayne State University Press Language Spanish ISBN-10 081433038X ISBN-13 9780814330388 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2002 Imprint Wayne State University Press Subtitle Selected Poems, 1954-2000 Place of Publication Detroit, MI Country of Publication United States Short Title SPA-MIRAR ADENTRO/LOOKING W/IN Residence US Birth 1944 Illustrations black & white illustrations DOI 10.1604/9780814330388 AU Release Date 2002-12-01 NZ Release Date 2002-12-01 UK Release Date 2002-12-01 Pages 320 Series African American Life Series DEWEY 861 Audience General Publication Date 2002-12-31 US Release Date 2002-12-31 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:101494592;

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