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Resistencia

Poems of Protest and Revolution

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"To read these poems is to be reminded again and again of our true allegiance to each other." —from the introduction by Julia Alvarez

With a powerful and poignant introduction from Julia Alvarez, Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution is an extraordinary collection, rooted in a strong tradition of protest poetry and voiced by icons of the movement and some of the most exciting writers today. The poets of Resistencia explore feminist, queer, Indigenous, and ecological themes alongside historically prominent protests against imperialism, dictatorships, and economic inequality. Within this momentous collection, poets representing every Latin American country grapple with identity, place, and belonging, resisting easy definitions to render a nuanced and complex portrait of language in rebellion.

Included in English translation alongside their original language, the fifty-four poems in Resistencia are a testament to the art of translation as much as the act of resistance. An all-star team of translators, including former US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera along with young, emerging talent, have made many of the poems available for the first time to an English-speaking audience. Urgent, timely, and absolutely essential, these poems inspire us all to embrace our most fearless selves and unite against all forms of tyranny and oppression.

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    • Library Journal

      August 28, 2020

      Representing every country in Latin America and the Caribbean, most more than once, this impressive body of work of socially committed and politically charged poetry anthologizes one poem each from more than 50 poets arranged chronologically, from Chilean Gabriela Mistral, her continent's first Nobel Prize winner, to 30-year-old Salvadoran Javier Zamora. Some of the contributors are among the giants of Latin American literature (Neruda, Vallejo, C�saire), but many who are lesser known are first being introduced to an English-language audience. Prefaced by an essay by the noted Dominican American author Julia Alvarez that provides context, the text offers English renditions alongside those in their original language, be it Spanish, Portuguese, French, or an Indigenous tongue and are generally faithful to the original work, mostly not in traditional verse forms. Those looking for guidance into the deeper meaning of the poems, however, will be shortchanged owing to the lack of commentary, annotations, or interpretation; they stand simply on their own merits as cries of social protest and as works of activism. VERDICT With their overriding theme of the search for justice and equality in an age of global unrest, these poems may never be more timely.--Lawrence Olszewski, North Central State Coll., Mansfield, OH

      Copyright 2020 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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