Harbors of Light
AUTHOR
Marjorie Agosín
TRANSLATOR
E M O'Connor
A bilingual collection celebrating the mystical connections between lighthouses and those who love them. Award-winning Chilean Jewish poet and human rights activist Marjorie Agosín weaves together mythology, memory, and hope—from Ulysses and Penelope to lighthouse keepers and dreamers—in poems that explore the guiding light we all seek. Through bittersweet mist and dreams, these musical verses illuminate hopeful, desperate lives (ThriftBooks) with Agosín's signature blend of lyrical beauty and profound humanity. Translated by E. M. O'Connor, this White Pine Press edition showcases a major voice in Latin American literature, praised by Isabel Allende and Julia Alvarez for her mesmerizing poetic vision and power to transport readers to the center of human experience.
Reviews
"These musical poems sing the mystical connections between all lighthouses and those who love them. From Ulysses and Penelope to the angel of dreams to the girl who fell in love with the lighthouse keeper, this book is full of hopeful, desperate lives seen through the bittersweet mist of dreams."
—Linda Rodriguez
"Agosin's poetic knowledge engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflections."
—Isabel Allende
"Marjorie Agosin proves the power of the word to transport us to the center of her humane vision."
—Julia Alvarez
Marjorie Agosín is a Chilean-American poet and scholar whose work focuses on social justice, feminism, and memory. Her publications include At the Threshold of Memory: New & Selected Poems (2003), The Light of Desire (2010), and I Lived on Butterfly Hill (2014), a young adult novel which won the Pura Belpre medal given by the American Library Association. She has received numerous honors and awards including a Jeanette Rankin Award in Human Rights, a United Nations Leadership Award for Human Rights, the Gabriela Mistral Medal of Honor from the Chilean government, and the Dr. Fritz Redlich Global Mental Health and Human Rights Award. She is the Luella LaMer Slaner Professor in Latin American studies and a professor of Spanish at Wellesley College.
Eileen O’Connor is a translator, writer, and teacher from Boston. Her translations from the Spanish include the poetry collections Pez [Fish] by Mariela Dreyfus and Harbors of Light by Marjorie Agosín.
O’Connor has taught Spanish, translation, and writing at Harvard University, Wellesley College, and Lesley University, and is currently a Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholar in the department of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American studies at University College Cork.
Marjorie Agosín is a Chilean-American poet and scholar whose work focuses on social justice, feminism, and memory. Her publications include At the Threshold of Memory: New & Selected Poems (2003), The Light of Desire (2010), and I Lived on Butterfly Hill (2014), a young adult novel which won the Pura Belpre medal given by the American Library Association. She has received numerous honors and awards including a Jeanette Rankin Award in Human Rights, a United Nations Leadership Award for Human Rights, the Gabriela Mistral Medal of Honor from the Chilean government, and the Dr. Fritz Redlich Global Mental Health and Human Rights Award. She is the Luella LaMer Slaner Professor in Latin American studies and a professor of Spanish at Wellesley College.