bilingual poetry books
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contemporary Mexican poetry
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Mexican poetry in translation
Mexican poets
poetry about marginalization
poetry about politics
poetry about sexuality
poetry about spirituality
Product details
- ISBN 9780872862814
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 139 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 17 Feb 1994
- Publisher: City Lights Books
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Light from a Nearby Window introduces a new generation of poets who have become a driving force in Mexican literature today. Until quite recently, contemporary Mexican poetry has been little-known and virtually unavailable to English-speaking readers. This bilingual anthology includes twenty-one poets--twelve men and nine women--all of who have received national and international recognition. In poems about sexuality and spirituality, politics and marginalization, history and tradition, urban and rural life, they write about the unique experience of being Mexican at the end of the millennium. Juvenal Acosta was born in Mexico City in 1961. He studied economics in Mexico City, and philosophy in Michoacan, where he lived, miraculously, as a poet. He is the author of the award-winning Diciendo unas palabras negras and Paper of Live Flesh. He lives in Berkeley, California.
