Volcan: Poems from Central America (Spanish Edition) [Paperback]

Alejandro Murgia (Editor), Barbara Paschke (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0872861538 | ISBN-13: 978-0872861534 | Publication Date: January 1, 2001 | Edition: First edition.

A contact bomb, a volcano ready to erupt" describes not only Central America in the 1980s but—in the conception of its editors—this anthology of contraband poetry. The poems themselves were often copied by hand and smuggled onto Mexico, from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua. In all those countries, except Nicaragua, this poetry is banned. The thirty-nine poets represented here give potent voice to the struggles of their peoples under the crushing oppression of life "under the volcano" in these war-stunned lands. Many of these women and men have been jailed, exiled, killed, or otherwise made to disappear. Still they survive in these faithful and sensitive translations by a new literary underground in North America.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Everything Is Normal In Our Courtyard by Claribel Alegria
To Patrice Lumumba by Roberto Armijo
Free Country: July 19, 1979 by Giaconda Belli
Obligations Of The Poet by Giaconda Belli
Strike by Giaconda Belli
City Of San Salvador by Tirso Canales
Nocturne For Freedom by Tirso Canales
Ecology by Ernesto Cardenal
Vision From The Small Blue Window by Ernesto Cardenal
Ampitheater Of Love by Otto-rene Castillo
Collective Voice by Otto-rene Castillo
Elegy by Otto-rene Castillo
October by Otto-rene Castillo
Prayer For The Soul Of My Country by Otto-rene Castillo
Bitter Sonnet To A Cup Of Coffee by Ricardo Castorrivas
Consencration Of The Corn Tortilla by Ricardo Castorrivas
Act by Roque Dalton
Jubilant Poem by Roque Dalton
Poem Of Love by Roque Dalton
Toward A Better Love by Roque Dalton
The Corpse by Maria Isabel De Los Angeles Ruano
Requiem For The Sumpul by Mercedes Durand
They Fell On The Stairway by Mercedes Durand
Final Reminder by Marco Antonio Flores
The Myth by Marco Antonio Flores
The Sacrifice by Marco Antonio Flores
For The Land Barons by Gaspar Garcia Laviana
Meditation On The Lake by Gaspar Garcia Laviana
A Flower by Carlos Jose Guadamuz
Black Is Black by David Macfield
Port Morazan by Carlos Martinez Rivas
Oil Painting by Walter Martinez
Chachikel Woman by Vida Luz Meneses
Christmas Carol by Rosario Murillo
I'm Going To Plant A Heart On The Earth by Rosario Murillo
Song Of Wandering Times by Rosario Murillo
The Fears by Roberto Obregon
That Sleepless Flame by Roberto Obregon
Memorial by Rigoberto Paredes
Salon Chronicle by Rigoberto Paredes
Tamborillo by Mario Payeras
A Collective Shot by Jamie Suarez Quemain
The Dictators by Jamie Suarez Quemain
The Incurable Love by Jose Luis Quesada
March, Vigilant Fire by Delia Quinonez
Awakening by Lil Milagro Ramirez
If I Were May by Carlos Rigby
The Houses Were Left Full Of Smoke by Leonel Rugama
The Death Of Somoza, Like That Of Foster by Ernesto Mejia Sanchez
The Great Figure by Francisco Morales Santos
Guatemalan Huipil by Rafael Sosa
Freehand Sketch by Roberto Sosa
The Other Death by Roberto Sosa
The Poor by Roberto Sosa
Combat by Clementina Suarez
Miss Babian Tending A Bar On The Atlantic Coast by Fanor Tellez
Pier by Ivan Uriarte
Rama by Ivan Uriarte
Before Death by Alfonso Quijada Urias
Chronicle by Alfonso Quijada Urias
The Past Will Not Return by Jose Coronel Urtecho
Chile by Roberto (robert) Vargas
Elegy For The Young Corpse by Jose Luis Villatoro
Letter To A Sister Who Lives In A Distant Country by Daisy Zamora
When We Return by Daisy Zamora
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Language Notes

Text: English, Spanish

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: City Lights Publishers; First edition. edition (January 1, 2001)
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN-10: 0872861538
• ISBN-13: 978-0872861534
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #879,372 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)