Poetry in Dangerous Times: Two Women, Two Worlds brings together two of America's most fearless literary voices. Demetria Martínez's and Susan Sherman's timely and intimate conversation spans decades, movements, and genres.
Part memoir, part retrospective, and wholly poetic, this collection opens with a dialogue between the two authors. It then unfolds into a generous offering of new and selected poems from each. Martínez and Sherman explore the intersections of poetry and protest, weaving personal testimony with political reality from the 1960s through the Sanctuary Movement of the 1980s to today. This is not just a poetry collection-it is a call to conscience.
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Höhe: 198 mm
Breite: 129 mm
Dicke: 10 mm
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978-1-956375-33-6 (9781956375336)
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Demetria Martínez, writer, poet, activist, and journalist, covered religion for the Albuquerque Journal and was a national news editor and a columnist for the National Catholic Reporter. Her widely translated novel Mother Tongue, set during the Sanctuary Movement, won a Western States Book Award. The novel was inspired by her 1987 indictment on charges of conspiracy in connection with allegedly transporting Central American refugees into the United States. The U.S. government attempted to use her poem "Nativity: For Two Salvadoran Women, 1986-1987" against her. A jury acquitted her on First Amendment grounds. Martínez is the author of numerous poetry collections and the short story collection The Block Captain's Daughter (which received the 2013 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation). Her essay collection, Confessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana, won an International Latino Book Award. She has also received the Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature.
