En carne propia Memoria poética

Jorge Argueta

Book - 2017

"En esta conmovedora colección bilingüe, el reconocido poeta Jorge Argueta evoca su niñez en El Salvador, el impacto de la guerra en su familia y vecinos, la vida como exciliado en los Estados Unidos y su renacimiento como poeta."--Page 4 of cover.

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Subjects
Genres
Autobiographical poetry
Poetry
Published
Houston, Texas : Arte Público Press [2017]
Language
English
Spanish
Main Author
Jorge Argueta (author, -)
Physical Description
xvi, 183 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN
9781558858381
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Review by Booklist Review

From his trying upbringing in rural El Salvador to his arrival on the literary scene in San Francisco in the 1980s, Argueta alternates between prose and poetry to create this genre-blending, bilingual memoir of his long journey north in flight from guerrilla violence. In short chapters, Argueta narrates life at home with his family, interrupted by the onslaught of civil war, and his subsequent escape from Central America. Argueta's poems are interspersed between these chapters, the best of them hovering, koanlike, and momentary. Here's Banana Tree in its entirety: An excited smile / hanging from the sky. Pepeto Tree opens: It is a small / green train / inside each car / there is a cloud. The brief poems echo the micrograms of Ecuadorian poet Jorge Carrera Andrade, while some longer poems bear formal resemblance to Neruda's odes, but Argueta's self-taught style is most similar to Mexican American writer Lalo Delgado or Jimmy Santiago Baca. A prolific children's-book author, Argueta explores decidedly more adult themes here.--Báez, Diego Copyright 2017 Booklist

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