Research Catalog

Title

The violent foam : new and selected poems / by Daisy Zamora ; translated by George Evans.

Author

Zamora, Daisy.

Publication

Willimantic, CT. : Curbstone Press, 2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

Evans, George, 1948-

Description

xxiv, 205 pages; 22 cm

Summary

A collection of more than seventy poems by award-winning Nicaraguan poet Daisy Zamora, presented in side-by-side Spanish and English.

Uniform Title

Violenta espuma. English & Spanish

Alternative Title

Violenta espuma.

Subject

Spanish language materials > Bilingual

Genre/Form

• Poetry
• poetry.
• Poetry.
• Poésie.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

From each one life -- Daguerreotype of a mother -- Otilia, ironing woman -- Minimal elegy -- The waitress (1) -- Faithful housewife -- The waitress (2) -- The masseuse -- The waitress (3) -- Family portrait -- Prophetic flashback -- The seamstress -- News in the supermarket -- Mary Elizabeth -- Neruda read by an older woman -- The foreigner -- Old bookbinder's restaurant, Philadelphia -- The landlord's son (19th Street, the Mission, San Francisco) -- Promenade -- The most precious jewel -- June night -- Letter to a sister who lives in a distant country -- The immigrant -- To a lady who laments the harshness of my verses -- Death abroad -- Fairy tales -- Requisites for a beauty queen -- Lassie (autobiography) -- Test to know your husband -- Seascape -- Advice for attracting your husband -- Home, sweet home -- How your man sees you (a pocket dictionary for women) -- For leaders and all other men -- Prescription -- Intensive care -- To be a woman -- For my grandfather Vicente, from January until his death.

ISBN

• 1880684888
• 9781880684887

LCCN

2002004255

OCLC

• ocm49326850
• 49326850
• SCSB-9156573

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library