These Are Not Sweet Girls: Poetry by Latin American Women

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This reprint of a White Pine Press classic brings together an astonishing range of work from the turn of the century to the present. Despite cultural maxims encouraging them to be silent, women continue to speak, often through the language of poetry, where there is an abundance of intuition and the possibility of reclaiming power through language. In the work included here, we see how the common threads of courage and inventiveness can be woven into a bright tapestry of womens voices that presents a true picture of a culture that must create its own history. Over fifty poets, including those well-known, such as Gabriela Mistral, Alfonsina Storni, and Cristina Peri Rossi, and those just emerging are included.
Marjorie Agosn, editor of the Secret Weavers series, is well-known as a poet, writer, and human rights activist. She is a professor at Wellesley College in Massachusetts.

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"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, Agosin has chosen poems that delight and inspire." -- Ms Magazine.

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Marjorie Agosin is a poet, writer, critic and human rights activist. She is a professor of Spanish at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts.