Woman Without Background Music: Selected Poems of Delia Dominguez
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Woman Without Background Music: Selected Poems of Delia Dominguez
By (Author) Deila Dominguez
Translated by Roberta Gordenstein
Introduction by Marjorie Agosin
By (author) Isabel Allende
White Pine Press
White Pine Press
2nd January 2006
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
861.608
Physical Properties
Paperback
226
Width 152mm, Height 228mm, Spine 12mm
311g
Description
Her poetry is terrestrial with roots, aerial with the wings of birds, translucent like our waters.Isabel Allende
I love Delia Dominguez dearly, and I want you to love her, and desire her, and nourish yourselves with her infinitely fragrant substances she brings us from afar.Pablo Neruda
Born in 1931, Delia Dominguez is one of the most important poets of Chile. Woman Without Background Music is the first volume of her poems to be published in English and collects poems from all phases of her work in a bilingual edition. She lives in Orsono in the south of Chile.
Roberta Gordenstein is an associate professor of Spanish at Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts.
Author Bio
Born in 1931, Delia Dominguez is one of the most important poets of Chile. She lives in Orsono in the south of Chile Roberta Gordenstein is an Associate Professor of Spanish at Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts. Her translations include Beloved Angels by Spanish poet Luz-Maria Jimenez and stories in the anthologies The House of Memory and Miriam's Daughters. Marjorie Agosin is a poet, writer and human rights activist. She is also a professor of Spanish at Wellesley College and editor of our Secret Weavers Series. Isabel Allende is a well known writer of fiction and nonfiction.
