At the Threshold of Memory: New & Selected Poems

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This large, bilingual collection contains work from more than 20 years of writing, including a small -selection of new work, arranged by themes fundamental to Agosns artistic and critical oeuvre. Her rich Eastern European and Latin American heritage, her experience in exile and her profound humanistic vision accompany the poet as she writes about ancestors, women, children, the poor and the disinherited. Despite the difficult material she examines, Agosn expresses a need to -rejoice in life and to believe in the possibility of change. Always searching for lifes bare essentials, -often in a spare language that reveals the common threads that unite us all, Agosn explores such diverse landscapes "to make beauty and order out of pain and chaos.

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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.