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The White Islands / Las Islas Blancas
Marjorie Agosin
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Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
I only wanted to write about them, / Narrate their fierce audacity, / Their voyages through the channels of the Mediterranean. So begins a poetic journey through the islands of the Mediterranean that served as homes and refuge for the Sephardic Jews after the Alhambra Decree, which ordered their expulsion from Spain. Inspired by her own journey to Salonika and the Greek Islands, Rhodes, Crete, as well as the Balkans, Marjorie Agosin searches for the remnants of the Sepharad. Presented in a beautiful bilingual Spanish-English edition, Agosin's poems speak to a wandering life of exile on distant shores. We hear the rhythm of the waves and the Ladino-inflected voices of Sephardi women past and present: Paloma, Estrella, and Luna in the fullness of their lives, loves, dreams, and faith. An evocative and sensual voyage to communities mostly lost after the Holocaust, The White Islands offers a lighthouse of remembrance, a lyrical world recovered with language and song, lament and joy, longing and hope.
Product Details
Publisher
Swan Isle Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
369g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9780983322092
SKU
V9780983322092
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About Marjorie Agosin
Marjorie Agosin is professor of Spanish at Wellesley College. She has written several books of poetry, essays, and criticism, among them The Light of Desire. Jacqueline Nanfito is professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Case Western Reserve University. Michal Held is professor of Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) literature and culture and Hebrew literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Reviews for The White Islands / Las Islas Blancas
Agosin takes up a sacred flame, a solemn trust, in this audacious book of journeys, this dreamy, precise, urgent, and heartrending Jewish testament.
Edward Hirsch, author of Gabriel: A Poem, president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation I ve read Agosin s stunningly beautiful poems with tears in my eyes and with awe in my heart. At once a lament about the loss of Sefarad and a celebration of all that lives on in word and song and women's memories, this book is a unique testament to a people, a culture, and a seascape. Marjorie Agosin is the best Jewish Latina poet writing today and these poems are a gift to all readers who are traveling, as she puts it, through ambiguous geographies. If you read only one poetry book, read this one, it will make your spirit soar, I promise you.
Ruth Behar, author of Traveling Heavy: A Memoir in between Journeys Agosin takes up a sacred flame, a solemn trust, in this audacious book of journeys, this dreamy, precise, urgent, and heartrending Jewish testament.
Edward Hirsch, author of Gabriel: A Poem, president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation I've read Agosin's stunningly beautiful poems with tears in my eyes and with awe in my heart. At once a lament about the loss of Sefarad and a celebration of all that lives on in word and song and women's memories, this book is a unique testament to a people, a culture, and a seascape. Marjorie Agosin is the best Jewish Latina poet writing today and these poems are a gift to all readers who are traveling, as she puts it, 'through ambiguous geographies.' If you read only one poetry book, read this one, it will make your spirit soar, I promise you.
Ruth Behar, author of Traveling Heavy: A Memoir in between Journeys The White Islands / Las Islas Blancas evokes the vibrancy of those banished Sephardic communities, especially of the women, who carried their faith, language, and traditions, along with a profound love of life, to their new homes. Rich in metaphor and euphony, this bilingual compilation, beautifully translated from the Spanish by Jacqueline Nanfito, consists of individual lyrical gems, yet reads like one long narrative poem.
Barbara Mujica Washington Independent Review of Books
Edward Hirsch, author of Gabriel: A Poem, president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation I ve read Agosin s stunningly beautiful poems with tears in my eyes and with awe in my heart. At once a lament about the loss of Sefarad and a celebration of all that lives on in word and song and women's memories, this book is a unique testament to a people, a culture, and a seascape. Marjorie Agosin is the best Jewish Latina poet writing today and these poems are a gift to all readers who are traveling, as she puts it, through ambiguous geographies. If you read only one poetry book, read this one, it will make your spirit soar, I promise you.
Ruth Behar, author of Traveling Heavy: A Memoir in between Journeys Agosin takes up a sacred flame, a solemn trust, in this audacious book of journeys, this dreamy, precise, urgent, and heartrending Jewish testament.
Edward Hirsch, author of Gabriel: A Poem, president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation I've read Agosin's stunningly beautiful poems with tears in my eyes and with awe in my heart. At once a lament about the loss of Sefarad and a celebration of all that lives on in word and song and women's memories, this book is a unique testament to a people, a culture, and a seascape. Marjorie Agosin is the best Jewish Latina poet writing today and these poems are a gift to all readers who are traveling, as she puts it, 'through ambiguous geographies.' If you read only one poetry book, read this one, it will make your spirit soar, I promise you.
Ruth Behar, author of Traveling Heavy: A Memoir in between Journeys The White Islands / Las Islas Blancas evokes the vibrancy of those banished Sephardic communities, especially of the women, who carried their faith, language, and traditions, along with a profound love of life, to their new homes. Rich in metaphor and euphony, this bilingual compilation, beautifully translated from the Spanish by Jacqueline Nanfito, consists of individual lyrical gems, yet reads like one long narrative poem.
Barbara Mujica Washington Independent Review of Books