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"Once again Marjorie Agosin has given the world a book of poetry that is both
awesomely beautiful and painfully disturbing. A travelogue through the Atacama
Desert, (the real desert as well as the desert of the human soul), where Chilean
mothers searched for their disappeared children during the rein of Agosto
Pinoche, this is a book to be wept over in candle lit rooms. Presented, as
always, with the Spanish original alongside the English translation, I am
forced, as an English speaker, to rely on the accuracy of Celeste Kostopolus-Cooperman's
translation, but given the sheer force and depth of the language here I can only
believe that this is a just translation. Marjorie Agosín is a poet,
writer, critic, and human rights activist. The descendant of European Jews who
escaped the Holocaust and settled in Chile, she was born in Bethesda, Maryland
and raised in Santiago, Chile. She has been in exile from Chile since Pinochet's
dictatorship rose to power. She obtained her Ph.D. from Indiana University in
1982 and is a Professor of Spanish at Wellesley College. In 1990 she received
the Jeanneta Rankin Award for Achievement in Human Rights. In 1995 she was
awarded the Letra D'Oro Prize and the Latina Literature Prize.
Her recent titles include Dear Anne Frank (Brandeis
University Press, 1998), Tapestries of Hope, Threads of Love: The Arpillera
Movement in Chile 1974-1994 (University of New Mexico Press, 1996), Starry Night
(White Pine Press, 1996), Circles of Madness : Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
(White Pine Press, 1992).
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