Woman of the River: Bilingual Edition

by Claribel Alegría

Book Overview

Translated by Darwin Flakoll In Woman of the River one of the major voices in Latin American poetry confronts the political realities of contemporary Central America. Many of the poems are political, direct, and condemnatory of the United States' presence in Latin America, and they are rich, human documents rooted in Alegria's knowledge of and love for her subjects. As Carolyn Forche has written of Alegria's previous selection of poems, Flowers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822954095
• ISBN13: 9780822954095
• Release Date: December 1988
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"