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stories that begin as cautious confessions implode, while stories that seem to be concerned with more cataclysmic situations devolve into revelations about the small matters of the heart. As always, Abbott’s stories are a real achievement.” -Ann Beattie ISBN 1-877727-14-8 · 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 206 pages · $10.00 paper
This large, bilingual collection contains more than
twenty years of poetry, including new work, arranged by themes
fundamental to Agosin's artistic and critical oeuvre. Her rich
Eastern European and Latin American heritage, her experiences
in exile, and her profound humanistic vision all play a role as
she writes about ancestors, women, children, the poor, and the
disinherited. Despite the difficult material, Agosin expresses
a need to rejoice in life and to believe in the possibility of
change. Always searching for life's bare essentials, often in
a spare language that reveals the common threads that unite us
all, Marjorie Agosin is well-known as a poet, writer, critic, and human rights activist. She is editor of the critically acclaimed Secret Weavers Series of Latin American Women's writing published by White Pine Press. Agosin is a professor of Spanish at Wellesley College. Her published work includes: Ashes of Revolt, A Cross and a Star: Memoirs of a Jewish Girl in Chile, An Absense of Shadows, and Happiness. "Marjorie Agosin is one of the most lyrical
and "Agosin's poetic language engages the reader
in a "Marjorie Agosin proves the power of the word
to "Her poetry vibrates with electricity and compassion
Edited by Marjorie Agosin & Betty Jean Craige Published to coincide with the first anniversary of the September 11 attack on the United States, this collection of essays by women of varied ethnic and religious backgrounds came together as a necessary response to the horrific events. All the women live in the United States, but many are immigrants. Each has a unique perspective on the events, some of which may prove controversial. As we watched the horrors wrought on September 11, 2001, unfold, the question on our lips was "Why?" A year after the attack on the United States, women of varied ethnic and religious backgrounds examine this question. Many of these writers grew up outside of the U.S. and bring a world perspective to their responses. Some are U.S.‹born but have been shaped by multi-cultural experiences. Consequently, the collection creates a unique mirror that reflects the U.S. from both inside and out, revealing the clash between the economically driven force of globalization embodied by the U.S. and the stateless, transnational terrorist organization that feeds on religious fundamentalism, poverty, and hatred of the United States. It is a multi-faceted image that is created: Margaret Randall posits that "the bully stance is eminently male," and that "feminists, able to deconstruct power, have the potential for developing new grids in a battle that now assumes life and death proportions." Carol Dine speaks of firefighters, the head of Cantor Fitzgerald, and House Majority Leader Dick Armey breaking down in front of the media. "These are men rocked to their core, men no longer able to hide inside their uniforms or three-piece suits, compelled to reveal that they are vulnerable. . . And I am forced to consider the contradictions of what it means to be male." Claudia Bernhardi states that "no political explanation, any argument ever, could or would satisfy the logic of destruction." What these writers share is the desire to open a world dialogue between cultures, between sexes, so we can prevent anything like the events of 9/11 from happening again anywhere in the world. Current Affairs Literature & Essay 6 x 9 224 pages $17.95 1-893996-58-1
Marjorie Agosin In this astonishing range of work from the turn of the century to the present, we see the common threads of courage and inventiveness woven into a tapestry of voices that presents a true picture of a culture that must create its own history. The more than fifty poets include both well-known, such as Gabriela Mistral, Cristina Peri Rossi, and Alfonsina Storni, and lesser known, emerging writers. This reprint of a White Pine Press classic brings
together an astonishing range of work from the turn of the century
to the present. Despite cultural maxims encouraging them to be
silent, women continue to speak, often through the language of
poetry, where there is an abundance of intuition and the possibility
of reclaiming power through language. In the work included here,
we see how the common threads of courage and inventiveness can
be woven into a bright tapestry of women’s voices that presents
a true picture of a culture that must create its own history.
Over Marjorie Agosin, editor of the Secret Weavers series, is well-known as a poet, writer, and human rights activist. She is a professor at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. Poetry Latin American Literature Secret Weavers
Series ISBN 1-877727-34-2 · 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 · 238 pages · $14.00 paper
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, White Pine Press has combined two of Marjorie Agosín's most enduring books of poetry, Zones of Pain and Circles of Madness: Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, both of which are out of print, into one volume. This bilingual edition includes all the work from these volumes, as well as several new poems. Focusing on the political torture of women and on the toll exacted on the friends and relatives of the “disappeared,”these poems insist that we remember what happened in Latin America and refuse to let it happen again.
A landmark collection that rescues the voices of the great women writers of Latin America. “This is, so far, the best anthology of Latin American women’s literature in translation published in this country. Highly recommended.” —Choice ISBN 0-934834-96-2 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 194 pages • $12.00 paper
These intriguing travel journalists unite and reveal the voices of women who traveled in Latin America during the 19th century. From French nuns early in the century, whose unpublished journals Agosífound in convent libraries, to well-bred English women, these travelers discovered a world beyond anything they had known or expected and recorded it in great detail. Although men discovered the land, these women discovered the heart and soul of the new world and its indigenous peoples. Destinations include Guatemala, Chile, Bolivia, Argentina, Peru, Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela, the Andes, and Nicaragua. Included among the writers are coffee heiress Helena Sanborn, who acted as translator for her father on his trip to inspect coffee plantations, and early feminist Flora Tristán.
“this dream-filled and reflective collection Agosín...focuses on nature and the inner processes of human life as embodied in the all-encompassing figure of the sea...these small pieces are quietly stunning.” -Harvard Review ISBN 1-877727-27-x · 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 · 92 pages · $12.00 paper
“‘Is, in fact, writing a subversive impulse for women, as opposed to what men rather vain gloriously define as craftsmanship?’ This question...reverberates throughout this outstanding collection....Given the number of translators, there is an incredible smoothness of tone here....this is an important work and it is also a great read.”- Publishers Weekly 1-877727-41-5 • 5.5 X 8.5 • 303 pages • $17.00 • Original Trade Paperback
“Aguilar neatly constructs a multilayered narrative, following the lives of six very different women whose struggles illustrate a common theme: the integration of the New World and the Old-captures the ambiguities involved in modern views of these earlier times, conveying both their horrors and their glories.”- Erik Burns, The New York Times Book Review The Lost Chronicles of Terra Firma recaptures the woman‘view of the conquest and colonization of Central America through the lives of six women who participated in the encounter between Europeans and Amerindians: three Spanish women, two indigenous women, and one mestiza. By intertwining the story of a fictional, contemporary, Nicaraguan newspaper woman writing a historical novel about women during the conquest, the author links historical experiences to the life of the contemporary Nicaraguan woman who, in attempting to resurrect the lives of the women of the conquest, better understands herself as a contemporary Central American woman. 1-877727-62-8 • 6 X 9 • 186 pages • $13.00 • Original Trade Paperback
Yosano Akiko (1878-1942) is admired as the greatest woman poet and tanka poet of modern Japan. ISBN 0-934834-05-9 · 6 x 8 · 48 pages · $7.50 paper
Prose poems by 144 poets trace this genera in North
America from Nathanial Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau to poets
just beginning their careers. Many writers best-known for their
fiction, including Hemingway and Faulkner, are included, as are
many poets whose prose poetry is a lesser known part of their
work. ISBN 0-898231-65-5 . 6 x 9 . 352 Pages . $18.95
” … a true original. His pictures of
the life we lead are satiric gems, yet so consummate an artist
is he that the reader can do nothing but laugh uproariously and
demand ‘More, more…,’” ”Jack Anderson is one of our great tightrope
dancers. His balance is exquisite, even when he’s holding
a chair, an umbrella, and an elephant … sometimes teaching
high hiliarity, sometimes utmost seriousness.” Maria Alexander Poetry Series 1 ISBN: 0-898231-91-4 6 x 9 76 pages $14.95
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Dreams
of Distant Lives 
A
Woman's Gaze: Essays on Latin American Women Artists
These
Are Not Sweet Girls: Poetry by Latin American Women
Happiness
: Stories by Marjorie Agosín
A Necklace
of Words 
Ashes
of Revolt
Landscapes
of a New Land : Short Fiction by Latin American Women 
Magical
Sites: Women Travelers of the Americas
Starry
Night: Poems by Marjorie Agosín
Sargasso:
Poems by Marjorie Agosín 
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