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Voices in the Wind/ Voces en el Viento: Poetry Crossing Borders (A Bilingual Publication)
Voices in the Wind/ Voces en el Viento Poetry Crossing Borders - A Bilingual Publication Author:James B. Allen, Carmen Aravena Voices in the Wind/Voces en el viento is a collaboration, a fully bilingual edition of contemporary poetry by Pulitzer Prize nominee James B. Allen and Chilean poet Carmen Aravena bound together in one volume. The poetry is exceptionally fine, and the translations are excellent in both Spanish and English. Poetic imagination in one language comp... more »lements and enhances its counterpart in the other. The "voices in the wind", if you listen carefully, are generally familiar: those of parents, siblings, close friends. They probably speak the same language that you do. And they bring back emotionally charged memories of an intensely personal nature. These feelings of nostalgia, fear, admiration, friendship, etc. know no boundaries, no frontiers. They bridge the gap between people of diverse cultures and countries. The concrete situations which call them forth illustrate the universal human condition and make wonderful poetry in the telling. No matter what language you speak, poetry is an invaluable instrument for self-exploration and the definition of values, as you will discover within the pages of this book.--- from book's back cover« less