Emplumada

Häftad, Engelska, 1981

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Beskrivning

Emplumada is Lorna Dee Cervantes’s first book, a collection of poems remarkable for their surface clarity, precision of image, and emotional urgency. Rooted in her Chicana heritage, these poems illuminate the American experience of the last quarter century and, at a time when much of what is merely fashionable in American poetry is recondite and exclusive, Cervantes has the ability to speak to and for a large audience.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1981-12-31
Mått:140 x 205 x 6 mm
Vikt:118 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Pitt Poetry Series
Antal sidor:80
Förlag:University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN:9780822953272

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Mer om författaren

Lorna Dee Cervantes was born in 1954. She is the author of From the Cables of Genocide: Poems on Love and Hunger and Emplumada (1981), which won an American Book Award. She is also co-editor of Red Dirt, a cross-cultural poetry journal, and her work has b

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Cervantes' first collection is an extremely mature book. The poems are lyrical and well crafted; images recur and build upon one another as the book progresses. Personal but never confessional, she holds emotion in check.