Riverbed of memory / Daisy Zamora ; translated from the Spanish by Barbara Paschke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zamora, Daisy.

Contributor:

Paschke, Barbara.

City Lights Books

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Pocket poets series ; no. 49.

Pocket poets series ; no. 49

Standardized Title:

Limpio se escribe la vida. English & Spanish

Language:

English

Spanish

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiii, 129 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm.

Edition:

First City Lights edition.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : City Lights Books, [1992]

Summary:

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.

Notes:

"First City Lights Edition, 1992."

Spanish texts, with English translation on facing pages.

Publisher's advertisements: [3] p. at end.

ISBN:

0872862739 :

OCLC:

26721728