These Are Not Sweet Girls: Poetry by Latin American Women
10 best books like These Are Not Sweet Girls: Poetry by Latin American Women (Marjorie Agosín): Classical Chinese Poetry: An Anthology, The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry, One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine: A Bilingual Edition, A Hundred White Daffodils, Selected Crônicas, June Jordan's Poetry for the People: A Revolutionary Blueprint, Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, The Youngest Doll, Poet's Choice, Begin Again: Collected Poems
| Author | David Hinton |
| ISBN | 0374531900 |
With this groundbreaking collection, translated and edited by the renowned poet and translator David Hinton, a new generation will be introduced to the work that riveted Ezra Pound and transformed modern poetry. The Chinese poetic tradition is the largest and longest continuous tradition in world...
| Author | Gerald Moore |
| ISBN | 0141181001 |
I remember finding Noémia de Sousa online and then in a looseleaf literary piece while in Portugal. I had nothing but time in Portugal, so I sat at a cafe and slowly tried to translate her verse, using a portable Portuguese translator.
Canção fraterna
Irmão negro de voz quente
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| Author | Paul Verlaine |
| ISBN | 0226853454 |
French poet Paul Verlaine, a major representative of the Symbolist Movement during the latter half of the nineteenth century, was one of the most gifted and prolific poets of his time. Norman Shapiro's superb translations display Verlaine's ability to transform into timeless verse the essence of...
| Author | Jane Kenyon |
| ISBN | 1555973086 |
In A Hundred White Daffodils - an enlightening and typically endearing collection of prose and poetry - the late author of five highly regarded books of verse reflects on her writing life, growing spirituality, passionate hobbies, and ultimately fatal struggle with leukemia. Jane Kenyon is one of...
| Author | Clarice Lispector |
| ISBN | 0811213404 |
"In 1967, Brazil's leading newspaper asked the avant-garde writer Lispector to write a weekly column on any topic she wished. For almost seven years, Lispector showed Brazilian readers just how vast and passionate her interests were. This beautifully translated collection of selected columns,...
| Author | June Jordan |
| ISBN | 0415911680 |
I don't really know what to make of this book, or even how to describe it. The book grew out of the famous poetry class that June Jordan taught at Berkeley for many years, and it's something of a hodge podge. The book is essentially a compilation of materials for and by the class: student writings (both poetry...
| Author | Miguel Algarín |
| ISBN | 0805032576 |
I'm currently reading some of the authors in the "Founding Poems" section of this book, for the Poets of Color class I'm teaching. As well, I've just recently read and will reread Miguel Algarín's introduction. I'm so interested especially in the section of this intro re: the Open Room, and the open...
| Author | Rosario Ferré |
| ISBN | 0803268742 |
A gentle maiden aunt who has been victimized for years unexpectedly retaliates through her talent for making life-sized dolls filled with honey. “The Youngest Doll,” based on a family anecdote, is a stunning literary expression of Rosario Ferré’s feminist and social concerns. It is the premier...
| Author | Edward Hirsch |
| ISBN | 0156032678 |
Edward Hirsch began writing a column called "Poet’s Choice" in the Washington Post Book World in 2002. This book brings together those enormously popular columns, some of which have been revised and expanded, to present a minicourse in world poetry. Poet’s Choice includes the work of more than...
| Author | Grace Paley |
| ISBN | 0374527245 |
A longtime teacher, activist, feminist, and masterful writer of short fiction and essays, Paley is also an accomplished poet. Combining her two previous collections with unpublished work, Begin Again traces the career of a direct, attentive, and always unpredictable poet. Whether describing...
| Author | Martín Espada |
| ISBN | 0393062562 |
The Republic of Poetry
The Republic of Poetry
by Martín Espada
Hardcover 96 pages
W.W. Norton, October, 2006
One cannot read the title to Martín Espada’s new book, The Republic of Poetry without recalling Plato’s banning of poets from his republic due...
| Author | Charles Simic |
| ISBN | 0156001292 |
Charles Simic now writes in English and lives in New Hampshire, but he was born in Belgrade, three years before the United States entered the Second World War. He has said that "being one of the millions of displaced persons made an impression on me," and that “I'm still amazed by all the vileness...
| Author | Sage Cohen |
| ISBN | 1582975574 |
Writing Poetry for Everyday Life
"Poetry is just the evidence of life," says Leonard Cohen. "If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."
You don't need an advanced degree to reap the rewards of a rich poetic life–writing poetry is within the reach of everyone. Poet Sage...
| Author | Emma Pérez |
| ISBN | 0292721285 |
Runner-up, Best Historical Fiction in English, Latino Book Awards Competition, 2010
This literary adventure takes place in nineteenth-century Texas and follows the story of a Tejana lesbian cowgirl after the fall of the Alamo. Micaela Campos, the central character, witnesses the violence...
| Author | Jorge Luis Borges |
| ISBN | 0143106015 |
This landmark collection brings together for the first time in any language all of the sonnets of Jorge Luis Borges. More intimate and personally revealing than his fiction, and more classical in form than the inventive metafictions that are his hallmark, the sonnets reflect Borges in...
Collected Poems of Vasko Popa
| Author | Vasko Popa |
| ISBN | 0856462683 |
Vasko Popa is one of the great post-war European poets. From surrealist fable to traditional folk-tale, from personal anecdote to tribal myth, Popa's poetry embodies in an original form the most profound imaginative truths of our age, precisely located in the reality and history of Serbia, in the...
| Author | Pablo Neruda |
| ISBN | 0520227085 |
The atom, a tuna, laziness, love—the everyday elements and essences of human experience glow in the translucent language of Neruda's odes. Chilean poet Pablo Neruda wrote three books of odes during his lifetime. Odas elementales was published in 1954, followed in subsequent years by Nuevas odas...
| Author | Federico García Lorca |
| ISBN | 0374528551 |
Selected verse from the poet who "expanded the scope of lyric poetry" (Rafael Campo, The Washington Post).
The work of Federico García Lorca, Spain's greatest modernist poet, has long been admired for its emotional intensity and metaphorical brilliance. The revised Selected Verse, which...
The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader
| Author | Gloria E. Anzaldúa |
| ISBN | 0822345641 |
Born in the Río Grande Valley of south Texas, independent scholar and creative writer Gloria Anzaldúa was an internationally acclaimed cultural theorist. As the author of Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Anzaldúa played a major role in shaping contemporary Chicano/a and lesbian/queer...
