<TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText language="eng">City Lights Pocket Poets </TitleText>

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GCDS-9780872864634 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100595160 02 0872864634 03 9780872864634 15 9780872864634 BC 01 305 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText language="eng">City Lights Pocket Poets </TitleText> <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText>State of Exile</TitleText> <Subtitle>Pocket Poets Number 58</Subtitle> 1 A01 Peri Rossi, Cristina Cristina Peri Rossi 007 05 1941 Cristina Peri Rossi (born November 12, 1941) is an Uruguayan novelist, poet, and author of short stories. Considered a leading light of the post-1960s period of prominence of the Latin-American novel, she has written more than 37 works. She was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, and left the country in 1972, moving to Spain, where she became a citizen in 1975. As of 2005 she lives in Barcelona. She studied at the University of Montevideo. Cristina Peri Rossi is one of the most acclaimed and personal voices in Hispanic letters. Being a writer from Uruguay, Peri Rossi is concerned with all forms of repressive cultural practices which limit individual freedom. As a liberal intellectual who was exiled in Spain during the military dictatorship which terrorized Uruguay in the 1970's, Peri Rossi experienced first-hand the alienating and dehumanization received by dictators as struggles against patriarchal power within the nuclear family are juxtaposed to rebellion against paternalistic authoritarian control. She also explores how language and power relations impose a socially constructed identity. Her critique of structures of power links political oppression to psychosexual repression. In her works, Peri Rossi succeeds in creating a whirlwind of despair and self-discovery, impelling us to assess our own individual beliefs and so avoid being entrapped by those who hold power over us. By inviting the reader to see modern society through the eyes of her characters, Peri Rossi uses the technique of defamiliarisation to produce biting satires of today's world. This includes a strong dose of feminism which can be read as a denouncement of patriarchal and phallogocentric society. Peri Rossi leads us to undetermined places where the horrors of censorship, torture, and human bondage take place. At the same time, her stories expose the shackles that incapacitate us and deny us the acceptance of ourselves. This elegy for freedom mourns the loss of liberty and justice while seducing us into questioning what we hold true. Sources Include: wwwlwikipedia.com, and findarticles.com 2 B06 Buck, Marilyn Marilyn Buck Marilyn Buck's life was dedicated to battling oppression. She began her anti-racist activism as a teen in Texas, organized against the war in Vietnam, and joined the SDS; with other SDS women she helped to incorporate women's liberation into the organization's politics. She fought for self-determination for all people, and she aligned herself with the Black Liberation Movement. In 1973 she was convicted of purchasing two boxes of handgun ammunition and was given a ten-year sentence. After serving four years in Federal prison in Alderson, West Virginia, she was granted a furlough and did not return. The following eight years she was underground.In 1985 Marilyn was recaptured and was convicted of conspiracy for the successful escape of Assata Shakur from her New Jersey prison. (Assata remains active from her exile in Cuba). Marilyn and her codefendents Dr. Mutulu Shakur and Sekou Odinga were also convicted of conspiracy to commit "armed bank robbery" in support of the New Afrikan Independence struggle. In 1988 she was given another ten years in the Resistance Conspiracy case, for "conspiracy to protest and alter government policies (the invasion of Grenada, intervention in Central America) through use of violence" against government and military property. She was imprisoned for over thirty years.Marilyn continued her activism inside of prison. She was deeply involved in cultural and educational activities for all prisoners, and translated for Spanish-speaking women inside. While in prison she contributed articles on prison issues to various journals and anthologies, and she lifted her own voice through poetry for the whole time she was incarcerated. Her poems appeared in anthologies, chapbooks and CDs, and in 2001 she was awarded a PEN American Center poetry prize.Marilyn was released from prison in 2010 and died shortly after from uterine cancer. 01 eng 01 Considered a leading light of the "Latin-American Boom" generation, Cristina Peri Rossi was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. She was forced to leave her country at the age of thirty-one when her work was banned and her life was threatened by a repressive military dictatorship, and in 1972 she moved to Spain, where she still resides. This collection of poems, written during her journey to Spain and over the first years of her self-exile, was so personal that it remained unpublished for almost thirty years. State of Exile is infused with the tremendous sense loss and alienation, the terrible doubt, sorrow and remorse that come with the abandonment of one's country, family and friends. And yet, the work is inspired, both by the knowledge that survival is a political, social and human imperative, and by the creative process that occurs when one searches for new reference points, new family and new relationships in the face of persistent nostalgia. In a world in which so many have been forced into exile, both political and economic, these poems bear witness and offer hope. The poems are accompanied here by two brilliant essays on exile, one by Peri Rossi, written upon their Spanish publication in 2003, and the other by translator Marilyn Buck, an American political prisoner, exiled in her own country. Cristina Peri Rossi is the author of 37 works, including Ship of Fools. She lives in Barcelona, Spain.Marilyn Buck was a political activist in the 1970s. She is currently serving an 80-year sentence at a federal penitentiary in Dublin, CA.Praise for State of Exile: "State of Exile is a haunting work that sat for decades, awaiting, like cicadas, its proper season. That time is now." -- <a target="blank" href="http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100448090">Mumia Abu-Jamal</a> Click <a href="http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100595160&fa=complements">here</a> for the full text of the typewritten letter sent from Mumia Abu-Jamal in support of Cristina Peri Rossi's State of Exile. "These poems will break your heart. And then mend what was broken with a beauty that is sad and bitter and tender. What we need in these times of dislocation and loss." - Ariel Dorfman, author of Death and the Maiden and Heading South, Looking North "In this fierce and melancholy tale of one woman's displacement and exile, we discover the heartbreakingly contemporary narrative of all refugees, building anew, grafting fresh languages and tastes onto shattered separations and sorrow, learning again to love. Bringing us this vanished poetry of Christina Peri Rossi and making it her own, is translator Marilyn Buck, herself an internal exile bound by prison walls, but whose spirit lifts us free." - Bernardine Dohrn, co-author of Race Course: Against White Supremacy 02 A tender, moving, and multi-layered portrait of the pain, loneliness and permanent nostalgia of exile. 08 "Li Po, Ovid, Dante, Tsvetaeva… what a venerated tradition the exiled Uruguayan poet, Cristina Peri Rossi shares. When her searing work was banned for criticizing government brutality, she fled the juntas of the ’70s and began a journey without a destination at the age of 31. 'Exile is a blind river winding from country to country.' The poems are so intensely personal that they remained private for thirty years.'Rage… pain… compassion… sorrows…' are the stuff of this heartrending but gutsy collection. The sea, ships, maps and birds haunt the pages. Poverty, nostalgia and despair are painted with direct, terse strokes. Even language, a poet’s best friend, now unfamiliar, reinforces the numbing isolation.The dream of returning, testament to a fierce love of country, offers false hope in a world where 'we lose what we win/ and what was won/ is lost in the flight.' Peri’s spirit soars in spite of the crushing anguish.A diary of displacement, loaded with disappearances, the spare works cut as they catalog loss." —Jeffrey Cyphers Wright The Brooklyn Rail 08 "Self-exiled in the early ‘70s (in response to a military coup when her work was banned and her life threatened) Uruguayan writer Peri Rossi wrote these poems during her first years in Spain—apparently they were too personally painful for publication when first written. Included are two essays on exile: one by Peri Rossi, the other by translator Buck who is serving an 80-year sentence in California for her militant political activism." —Robert Birnbaum Book Digest 23 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100595160/extras/Peri_Rossi_interview.pdf 04 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100595160/images/87286100595160L.gif 07 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100595160/images/87286100595160S.gif 30 07 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100595160/extras/M_Buck_Going_Back.mp3 30 07 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100595160/extras/Marilyn_Buck_greets_event.mp3 30 07 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100595160/extras/M_Buck_Prison_as_exile.mp3 30 07 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100595160/extras/M_Buck_Can_t_go_home.mp3 30 07 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100595160/extras/M_Buck_on_Peri_Rossi.mp3 http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100595160 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 20080315 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 20 20080315 01 02 14.95 USD