Halting Steps: Collected and New Poems
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (676 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0810129191 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 332 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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Claribel Alegría is a Salvadoran-Nicaraguan poet and novelist who is a major voice in the literature of contemporary Central America. She was awarded the 2006 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
About the AuthorClaribel Alegría is a Salvadoran-Nicaraguan poet and novelist who is a major voice in the literature of contemporary Central America. She was awarded the 2006 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
The volume collects all of Alegría’s poems from her fourteen previously published books and debuts several new poems under the title “Otherness.” Alegría was born in Nicaragua during the United States occupation of that country. Halting Steps represents the most complete single-volume retrospective in English of Claribel Alegría’s seven-decade career. She strikes a universal theme, however, in giving a voice to individuals of all classes in their struggle against oppression, but especially women who must contend with a system in which men hold the power and women are excluded. Her verse has always spoken forcefully, specifically, and fearlessly to matters of social justice in her region. Alegría’s family opposed the occupation and moved to El Salvador, where she grew up. Her poetry i