Volcán : poems from Central America : a bilingual anthology / edited by Alejandro Murguia and Barbara Paschke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Murguía, Alejandro, 1949-

Paschke, Barbara.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Central American poetry--20th century--Translations into English.

Central American poetry.

English poetry--Translations from Spanish.

English poetry.

Central American poetry--20th century.

Physical Description:

xii, 159 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : City Lights Books, [1983]

Summary:

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.

Notes:

English and Spanish.

ISBN:

0872861538

OCLC:

10022995