City Lights Books transfers@onixsuite.com 20130919 spa

COM.ONIXSUITE.9780872861534 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100890800 02 0872861538 03 9780872861534 15 9780872861534 BC 1 B01 Paschke, Barbara Barbara Paschke 2 B01 Murguía, Alejandro Alejandro Murguía <p> Alejandro Murguía was born in California, but raised in Mexico City. His experiences as an international volunteer in the Nicaraguan Insurrection of 1979 are recounted in his second collection of short stories Southern Front (American Book Award,1991). He lives in San Francisco, where he teaches Latin American literature at San Francisco State University. He was named Poet Laureate of San Francisco in 2012.</p> 01 spa 160 00 160 03 03 0 03 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Latin America 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Poetry 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Poetry in Translation 01 <P>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.</P> 02 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... 04 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100890800/images/87286100890800L.jpg 07 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100890800/images/87286100890800S.jpg http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100890800 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 19831201 01 8 in 02 5.5 in 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 30 19831201 01 02 13.95 USD