Research Catalog

Title

Melodious women / by Marjorie Agosín ; translated from the Spanish by Monica Bruno.

Author

Agosín, Marjorie.

Publication

Pittsburgh, Penn. : Latin American Literary Review Press, 1997.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Bruno Galmozzi, Monica.

Description

160 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

• A celebration of individuality, beauty and courage, Melodious Women is a collection of more than eighty-five poems in tribute to women in history.
• From the mythical Ariadne and the literary genius Rosario Castellanos to the passionate conviction of Rachel Carson, Marjorie Agosin's verses honor these accomplished, ground-breaking figures, as well as the universal roles women play as in the poems "Mothers" and "The Women Who Wait." This collection is an inspiring portrait of both the diversity and unity of the female experience.

Series Statement

Discoveries

Uniform Title

• Mujeres melodiosas. English
• Discoveries.

Alternative Title

Mujeres melodiosas.

Contents

• Titania's Creed -- Alicia to Alicia Alonso -- Antigone -- Ariadne -- Josephine Baker -- Umiliana Cardenas: Fisher of Poets -- Leonora Carrington -- Rachel Carson -- Rosario Castellanos -- Clear Clarice to Clarice Lispector -- Delmira to Delmira Agustini -- Isadora Duncan -- Elena to Elena Gascon-Vera -- Emily Dickinson for Diana -- Eve -- Gala -- Frida Kahlo -- Leonor of Aquitaine -- Lillith -- Florence Nightingale -- Camilla O'Gorman -- Pandora -- Violeta Parra -- Penelope -- Christine de Pissan -- Queen Isabel -- Quintrala -- Laura Riesco -- Laura Riesco II -- Rigoberta to Rigoberta Menchu -- Scheherazade -- Sister Juana -- To Virginia Woolf -- Xochaquetzal, the Goddess of Flowers -- Sappho -- The City of Women -- La Malinche -- To Speak with the Dead -- Come -- The Widows of Iowa -- The Widows of the Desert -- The Women of Bosnia -- The Women of War -- The Women of Sarajevo -- The Women of the River -- The Women of Love -- She -- The Sisters --
• The Hand -- The Weaver -- Prayer -- Women -- An Egyptian Girl -- The Women Who Wait -- The Secretary -- Angels -- The Collector -- Seamstress During the Day -- The Maids -- The Ladies of the Night -- Llorona -- Knives -- The Globe to Joy -- Men -- Sex -- Sex II -- I cry -- My Mother -- Mothers -- All Women are Fat -- Women Choose Men -- 40 -- When I Grow Up -- The Wife -- There Are Women Like the Angels -- Happiness -- New Life to Enrique Lihm and Sonia Helena -- The Generals -- Poetry -- Women's Word -- The Word -- Women's Tasks -- Celebrant of Loves -- Absence -- Writer -- Epitaph allegro.

ISBN

0935480919 (pbk.)

LCCN

97042693

OCLC

• 37813534
• ocm37813534

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries