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Title: Sorrow by Claribel Alegria, Carolyn Forche, Claribel Alegría ISBN: 1-880684-63-2 Publisher: Curbstone Press Pub. Date: 15 October, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Deeply, deeply touching.
Comment: I love poetry, generally prefer poetry rich in metaphor and allusions, this set is more direct (though containing a number of nice mythological references)... But this slim volume is one of the most touching, sad and beautiful books I've ever read... I'll reread this a hundred times... and hope I find a love as deep.
Rating: 5
Summary: Alive with beauty and emotion
Comment: In "Sorrow," Claribel Alegria has created poetry of great beauty and power. This is a bilingual edition, with each of Alegria's Spanish poems accompanied by Carolyn Forche's English translations. Forche has also written an introduction in which she explains how much of this book reflects Alegria's emotions over the death of her husband, Bud Flakoll.
Alegria's poems are emotionally raw, and graced with lyrical beauty and stunning imagery. Many of the poems in this collection revisit figures from Greek mythology: Ariadne, Circe, Sisyphus, and more. Particularly powerful is "The Reflections of Icarus," which re-imagines this character as a metaphor for poets. A number of other poems are short, haiku-like creations that examine both nature and the human world.
In the poem "This Is a Night of Shadows," Alegria writes, "My heart wishes / to burst with rage / but it sprouts wings." This memorable image is characteristic of her work. Alegria moves from tragedy to transcendence, and her work is rich in insight. This is an important volume by one of the great writers of Central America.
Rating: 5
Summary: The transformation of grief ...
Comment: All the poems in this collection grew out of the the poet's grief when she lost her husband. Her voice comes from a space deep within and is immediate. The grief and pain in all the poems is devastating and all-encompassing, but transformative. Her sadness and sense of loss colors every aspect of her life, but then shifts and dissipates, lifting her to another place in space and time. It was so refreshing to read a poet who so beautifully acknowledges and expresses deep emotion.
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Title: Casting Off by Claribel Alegría ISBN: 1880684985 Publisher: Curbstone Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Country Between Us by Carolyn Forche ISBN: 0060909269 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 March, 1982 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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