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With Eyes and Soul: Images of Cuba Rogovin traveled to Cuba twice in the 1980s to photograph those he calls “the forgotten ones.” He met poet Morejon, who, upon seeing Rogovin’s photographs, decided to write new poems and select poems from previous work that spoke to the photographs. The result is a spectacular collaboration betweeen poet and artist that creates a multi-dimensional portrait of the landscape and people of a place that has been all but invisible to us since the embargo of Cuba more than forty years ago. Secret Weavers Series,
volume 19
When this coming-of-age novel was first published in Rivera’s
native Dominican Republic, it shocked readers with its frank look
at the sometimes tawdry life of a young Dominican woman. Caught
between the onslaught of U.S. consumer culture and the evolving
Marxist theology that spread through the Caribbean after the Cuban
Revolution, the story reflects the loss of any sense of identity
as the girl and her best friend move toward adulthood. They look
for role models in musicians and writers, but as loss piles on
loss—loss of cultural identity, loss of lovers, loss of
a child, loss of dreams— they move every closer to knowing
that “the worst solitude is that which is shared.”
Volume 16 Born in Cuba in 2902 Loynaz established her literary reputation in the first half of the 20th century. After the Cuban revolution in 1959, she retreated to her beloved home and vowed to never write again.. In 1992 she received the Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious award in the Spanish language. She died in 1997. A Woman In Her Garden presents a bilingual selection of her work. from all phases of her career. ISBN 1-893996-55-7 176 pages $16.00 paperback
Most of these essays on women were originally published
in newspapers and journals. Gathered together in Engish for the
first time, they paint vivid portraits of some of the most extraordinary
women of Mistral’s generation and give us an insight into
Gabriela Mistral herself. Exquisite word portraits of women by
one of the past century's greatest women writers. These recados,
brief, descriptive essays,paint vivid pictures of some of the
most extraordinary women of Mistral's generation and give us insights
into Mistral herself. In these pieces, Mistral infuses the traditionally
objective essay form with the intimate and subjective, thereby
creating an alternate space for women intellectuals in the public
sphere. Her subjects range from her own beloved mother to well-known
writers such as Victoria Ocampo and Emily Bronte, artists such
as Chilean sculptor Laura Rodig and dancer Isadora Duncan, and
to topics including feminism, women and Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) is the only woman from Latin America to win the Nobel Prize. A native of Chile, she spent the final years of her life in the United States. Literature & Essay Latin American Literature ISBN: 1-893996-09-3 200 Pages $16.00
Libertad Demitropulos This book evokes the era of exploration and settlement of Argentina in the late 16th century, but also speaks to the military dictatorship of 1976-83, which is when the book was written. It imagines the voices of those who are voiceless in official history: women, black slaves, and mestizos. Here, just as the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo did four centuries later, it is the women who remember and speak out for justice. Set during the 16th century tumult of exploration and first settlements along the Parana River in Argentina, River of Sorrows, based on actual events, is told by people marginalized and usually invisible in history. Mestizo soldier Blas de Acuna’s great unrequited love for the firey Maria Muratore prompts him to tell the story of Maria’s amazing exploits, but it’s not Blas but his second wife who insures that Maria is not forgotten by history. By constantly retelling the story, she creates a larger-than-life image that embraces all the women who kept the settlements alive, propped up the men and put loaded guns in their hands, and became the collective memory of a nation that, 450 years later, would be home to the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. Demitropulos Libertad, who died in July of 1998, is widely recognized as one of the finest Argentine writers of the twentieth century. Of her seven novels, River of Sorrows is the most acclaimed. Mary G. Berg’s translations of Latin American writers have been widely published. She teaches at Harvard University. Fiction Women's Literature Secret Weavers Series 14 6 x 9 196 pages $14.00 1-877727-88-1
Employing a thematic framework, this book not only celebrates the tenth anniversary of the series, but is designed to provide teachers of multiethnic literature with a diverse range of Latin American women‘voices, addressing a wide variety of issues. Suggesting both the plurality and universality of the responses that these authors have articulated, the book includes poetry and fiction from the earliest writers to those who have only recently established themselves as major voices in Latin American letters. 1-877727-82-2 • 6 X 9 • 224 pages • $15.00 • Original Trade Paperback
Publication: May 1998 “ ...a poignant, thought-provoking novel that offers a refreshingly unjaundiced look at both an individual and a society in transition.”- Américas Critically acclaimed upon its publication in Spanish (Lima, 1994), this is the enchanting story of a sensitive and chronically-ill child who is just becoming aware of life‘complexities. Forced to piece together snippets of information gleaned from her parents‘remarks and her own observations, Ximena forms a not-quite-coherent picture of things, although she often grasps primal truths that escape more rational minds. 1-877727-80-6 • 5 1/2 X 1/2 • 269 pages • $14.00 • Original Trade Paperback
The first English-language gathering of the voices of Mexican women, most of whom began to publish in the 1960s, when an emerging middle class supported a boom in Mexican letters. Well-known writers such as Elena Poniatowska and Rosario Castellanos, and writers just beginning to receive critical acclaim, tell diverse stories of Mexico‘women, from La Malinche up to present-day women trying to find their places in a country with a strong patriarchal tradition. 1-877727-73-3 • 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 • 152 pages • $14.00 • 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
“‘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
“Reading Magali García Ramis is always a treat. She knows how to tell a good story and keep you interested to the end. Happy Days, Uncle Sergio, a novel about growing up in Puerto Rico in the fifties, rings with the quiet power of real life recreated with warmth, tenderness, and simplicity.” —Ana Lydia Vega ISBN 1-877727-52-0 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 176 pages • $12.00 paper
“Flowing effortlessly from the erotic to the political, this stunning anthology brings together the voices of several generations of poets from more than a dozen Latin American countries. Mixing well-known voices with emerging writers, Agosín has chosen poems that delight and inspire.” —Ms. Magazine ISBN 1-877727-38-5 • 320 pages • 5.5 x 8.5 • $20.00 paper
“An important chorus of our south of the border sisters for us Latinas to hear...Here we have much knowing and glorying from Argentina to Brazil to my own Dominican Republic—toes to waist to breasts of the hemisphere!” —Julia Alvarez ISBN 1-87727-31-8 • 6 x 9 • 284 pages • $19.95 cloth
Poems and prose by Latin America’s first Nobel Prize Laureate. “This beautiful anthology holds the first English translation of Gabriela Mistral’s extraordinary prose and poetry . . . hidden to the mainstream no longer, here is the breathtaking lifework of a most gifted and enigmatic muse.” —NAPRA Journal ISBN 1-877727--18-0 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 277 pages • $13.00 paper
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
“This collection is painful, disturbing, and rewarding. Freeman and three other translators transform Storni’s razor-sharp poetry into English versions that invite constant re-reading. This is a poetry of fatal beauty that leads toward unavoidable death, but not before freeing the poet to leave everything she can behind.” —Bloomsbury Review ISBN 0-934834-16-4 • 72 pages • 5.5 x 8.5 • $8.00 paper
Other Books by Series Editor: Marjorie Agosin An Absence
of Shadows
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.
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 arresting collection of stories...submerges us in a world that combines vivid dream and mundane reality... a moving ambitious book, a work that celebrates the voices of women who have, despite their suffering, managed to emerge victorious.”- The New York Times ISBN 1-877727-34-2 · 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 · 238 pages · $14.00 paper
“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
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Magical
Sites: Women Travelers of the Americas
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Woman's Gaze: Essays on Latin American Women Artists
Ashes
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Happiness
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Night: Poems by Marjorie Agosín
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