Research Catalog

Title

Tropical town and other poems / Salomón de la Selva ; edited, with an introduction, by Silvio Sirias.

Author

Selva, Salomón de la, 1893-1959.

Publication

Houston, Tex. : Arte Público Press, 1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

Sirias, Silvio.

Description

161 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Poems by a late Nicaraguan writer. In A Prayer for the United States, he wrote: "Apocalyptic blasts are ravaging over-sea. / With lure of flag and conquest the harlot War is wooing. / The horse John saw in Patmos its dread course is pursuing. / I pray the Lord He shelter the stars that shelter me."

Uniform Title

Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project publication.

Subject

• Nicaraguans > United States > Poetry
• Nicaraguans
• Nicaragua > Poetry
• Nicaragua
• United States

Genre/Form

Poetry.

Note

• "Recovering the U.S. Hispanic literary heritage"--Preliminary page.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 52-56).

Contents

• Introduction / Silvio Sirias -- Tropical Town -- Tropical House -- Tropical Park -- Tropical Morning -- Guitar Song with Variations -- Tropical Dance -- The Midget Maiden -- The Girl That Was Wise -- Tropical Rain -- The Haunted House of Leon -- A Song for Wall Street -- Tropical Afternoon -- Tropical Life -- All Souls' Day -- Tropical Childhood -- Birds of Clay -- Body and Soul -- My Nicaragua -- The Dreamer's Heart Knows Its Own Bitterness -- Deliverance -- Portrait -- The Secret -- Confidences -- Finally -- Measure -- Inmate -- Song of the Magdalen -- Cellini at the Metropolitan Museum -- Three Songs My Little Sister Made: Make-Believe -- Three Songs My Little Sister Made: Pennies -- Three Songs My Little Sister Made: Moonrise -- Sonnet ("Are you awake, Beloved? Come and see") -- Courtship -- Three Songs: Tryst -- Three Songs: Worn Toy -- Three Songs: The Birch Tree -- A Prayer for the United States -- Hatred -- December 1916 -- Drill -- Ode to the Woolworth Building.
• The Knight in Gray -- Pastorale -- The Tale from Faerieland -- To a Young Man -- The Box of Sandalwood (Ten Sonnets) -- Candle Light -- Fleur d'Or -- Song of the Poppy -- Song of the Poppy's Lover -- Aria in G -- The Sword of Wonder -- First Love Revived (Seven Sonnets) -- The Little Foxes -- The Sorry Madrigal -- "I Would Be Telling You" -- "Her Wish Was That Myself Should Be" -- To Those Who Have Been Indifferent to the Pan American Movement -- "Oh Glorious Spendthrift Joy!" -- The Modern Eve -- Joy -- Hunger in the City -- The Maker of Red Clay Jars -- Delgadina -- Of Time and Song.

ISBN

• 1558852352
• 9781558852358

LCCN

98003282

OCLC

• ocm38496545
• 38496545
• SCSB-577055

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library