
Halting Steps
Collected and New Poems
Claribel Alegria(Author)
Northwestern University Press
Will be published approx. on 30. August 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
261 pages
978-0-8101-2919-1 (ISBN)
Description
Provides the most complete single-volume retrospective in English of Claribel Alegria's seven-decade career. The volume collects all of Alegria's poems from her fourteen previously published books and debuts several new poems under the title "Otherness".
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Language
English
Place of publication
Evanston
United States
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
688 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8101-2919-1 (9780810129191)
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Person
Claribel Alegría was a Salvadorian-Nicaraguan poet, essayist, novelist, and journalist who was a major voice in the literature of contemporary Central America. She has been called "one of the region's finest writers" by The Washington Post. Alegría published over forty books, including fifteen collections of poetry, and was a recipient of the Casa de las Americas Prize of Cuba. Her works in English include Ashes of Izalco, Luisa in Realityland, and Family Album. She was awarded the 2006 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. She died in 2018.