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Frivolous Women and Other Sinners / Frivolas y Pecadoras
Alicia Borinsky
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Description for Frivolous Women and Other Sinners / Frivolas y Pecadoras
Hardback. A collection of poems that invites readers to visit the darker and lighter sides of laughter and love and feel the tenderness of recovered memories as they cross the bridges of relationships and stroll down the mysterious streets of childhood. Translator(s): Franzen, Cola; Borinsky, Alicia. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 476.
Tango and fairy tales mix freely in this seductive, irreverent, and sensual collection of poems. From a city that is at once Buenos Aires and all other cities, Alicia Borinsky brings to life reluctant mothers, slightly mad teachers, selfless wives, neighborhood witches, best friends, sworn enemies, torturers, vamps, cheats, and lovers - a gallery of characters who wink and boldly gaze back at us. Vignettes become poems and poems become vignettes, reflections that dance, reveal, conceal, enchant, confess, and dream."Frivolous Women" invites us to visit the darker and lighter sides of laughter and love and feel the tenderness of recovered ... Read more
Tango and fairy tales mix freely in this seductive, irreverent, and sensual collection of poems. From a city that is at once Buenos Aires and all other cities, Alicia Borinsky brings to life reluctant mothers, slightly mad teachers, selfless wives, neighborhood witches, best friends, sworn enemies, torturers, vamps, cheats, and lovers - a gallery of characters who wink and boldly gaze back at us. Vignettes become poems and poems become vignettes, reflections that dance, reveal, conceal, enchant, confess, and dream."Frivolous Women" invites us to visit the darker and lighter sides of laughter and love and feel the tenderness of recovered ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Swan Isle Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9780974888149
SKU
V9780974888149
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Ref
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About Alicia Borinsky
Alicia Borinsky is professor of Latin American and comparative literature and directs the Writing in the Americas program at Boston University. Cola Franzen has collaborated with Alicia Borinsky in the translation of several of her books, among them Golpes Bajos/Low Blows, Suenos del seductor abandonado/Dreams of the Abandoned Seducer, and Mina cruel/Mean Woman. She lives in Cambridge, Massachussetts.
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