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Solis Press Stitching Resistance: Women, Creativity, and Fiber Arts
Book SynopsisThis book gathers a collection of multidisciplinary essays written by distinguished scholars, visual artists, and writers. The common thread of these essays addresses the ways in which fiber arts have enriched and empowered the lives of women throughout the world. From Ancient Greece to the Holocaust, to the work of grassroots organizations, these essays illustrate the universality of fiber arts.Table of ContentsContributors: Esther Andradi, Anne Ashbaugh, Roberta Bacic, Gina Canepa, Lori Marie Carlson, Lorraine Lener Ciancio, Roger Dunn, Gaby Franger, Michal Held, Marilyn Kimmelman, Rebecca Leavitt, L. Dunreith Kelly Lowenstein, Ana Luszczynska, E.M. O'Connor, Marcela Orellana Muermann, Linda Rodriguez, Heather D. Russell, Renee S. Scott, Inela Selimovic', Emma Sepulveda Pulvirenti, Sheryl St. Germain, Bernice Steinhardt.
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University of Arizona Press Of Earth and Sea
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Ohio University Press Gabriela Mistral
Book SynopsisGabriela Mistral is the only Latin American woman writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Even so, her extraordinary achievements in poetry, narrative, and political essays remain largely untold.Trade Review"What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people." - Gabriela Mistral
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Ohio University Press Taking Root Narratives of Jewish Women in Latin
Book SynopsisIn Taking Root, Latin American women of Jewish descent, from Mexico to Uruguay, recall their coming of age with Sabbath candles and Hebrew prayers, Ladino songs and merengue music, Queen Esther and the Virgin of Guadalupe.Trade ReviewA very significant addition to the fields of Judaic Studies and Women's Studies...this book makes a unique contribution to literary scholars interested in the Jewish presence in Latin America and in the literature of displacement in general. * College of the Holy Cross *
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Swan Isle Press The White Islands Las Islas Blancas
Book SynopsisI 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, longi
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Swan Isle Press The Light of Desire
Book SynopsisA meditation on love and its meanings in the land of Israel.
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Simon & Schuster I Lived on Butterfly Hill
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Solis Press The House of Memory: Stories by Jewish Women
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University of Texas Press Amigas Letters of Friendship and Exile
Book SynopsisThis collection of letters chronicles a remarkable, long-term friendship between two women who, despite differences of religion and ethnicity, have followed remarkably parallel paths from their first adolescent meeting in their native Chile to their curreTable of Contents Dedication Acknowledgments Introduction: An Open Letter To Our Readers Amigas Epilogue
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White Pine Press Notes from the Sea
Book SynopsisA deep meditation on the power and resonance of the sea.In a stunning collection of prose poems, Agosin reflect on the sea as a force of transformation, a creative force of energy, spirituality, and redemption. She writes about the patterns of the ocean, its moods day and night, and the sea as a constant companion.
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Solis Press Gifts
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Simon & Schuster I Lived on Butterfly Hill
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Simon & Schuster The Maps of Memory
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White Pine Press Secrets in the Sand: The Young Women of Juarez
Book SynopsisOver the past decade over 350 women around the city of Juarez, Mexico, have been raped and murdered. The remains of these brutalized young women continue to be found scattered in the parched desert, vacant city lots, and roadside ditches. Others are never found. In Secrets In The Sand, Agosin through her words and images invites her readers to bear witness to the reality that the grieving families of the disappeared and murdered young women face every day. As a poet and human rights activist Marjorie Agosin has dedicated her life's work to the search for justice and human dignity.
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White Pine Press Harbors of Light
Book Synopsis"These musical poems sing the mystical connections between all lighthouses and those who love them. From Ulysses and Penelope to the angel of dreams to the girl who fell in love with the lighthouse keeper, this book is full of hopeful, desperate lives seen through the bittersweet mist of dreams."--Linda Rodriguez "Agosin's poetic knowledge engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflections."--Isabel Allende "Marjorie Agosin proves the power of the word to transport us to the center of her humane vision."--Julia Alvarez Marjorie Agosin is an award-winning poet and human rights activist.Table of ContentsTable of Contents Ulises añoraba regresos / Ulysses Longed for Returns Ulises añoraba regresos / Ulysses longed for returns 5 / 6 Por las noches mi madre me cuenta historias. / At night my mother tells me stories. 11 / 12 Por las noches te detienes, te asomas, eres una ventana. / At night you pause, leaning out, you are a window. 13 / 14 La noche del relámpago / The night of lightning 15 / 16 De pronto se precipitaron las lluvias. / Suddenly the rains rushed. 19 / 20 Por las noches en aquella isla. / At night on that far away island. 23 / 24 Acerco al sueño que es otro sueño dentro del sueño. / I approach the dream that is another dream within a dream. 27 / 28 La niebla volando bajo y alto. / Fog flying low and high. 29 / 30 Inmóvil, arropada entre las nieblas. / Immobile, shrouded in fog. 31 / 32 Íbamos cruzando las espesuras del camino. / When we were crossing the thickets on the path. 37 / 38 Aquí te reconozco. / Here I recognize you. 41 / 42 En la noche densa nos abrimos a los deseos del amor. / In the dense night we open to the light’s desire. 43 / 44 Lentamente, furiosamente la niebla llega hacia las costas. / Slowly, fiercely the fog arrives upon the coasts. 45 / 46 De pronto y como de sorpresa. / Suddenly and by surprise. 49 / 50 Después de las iracundas tormentas. / After the raging storms. 53 / 54 Entre los océanos. / Among the oceans. 55 / 56 Palabras de agua / Words of Water Palabras de agua. / Words of water. 60 / 61 Hemos elegido vivir aquí en esta isla innombrable. / We have chosen to live here on this unameable island. 64 / 65 Aquí en la isla. / Here on the island. 66 / 67 Toda aquella espesa noche. / The thick night was submerged. 68 / 69 Nosotros los que vinimos aquí en busca de amor y luz. / And we who came here in search of love and light. 72 / 73 Toda la noche el cuerpo del amor. / All night the body in love. 76 / 77 Cuando las palabras se destejen. / When words unravel. 78 / 79 Amé la suavidad de sus palabras. / I love the softness of his words. 80 / 81 Como viajeros extraviados. / Like wanderers adrift. 82 / 83 En tus ojos. / In your eyes. 84 / 85 Se enamoró de una sirena. / He fell in love with a mermaid. 88 / 89 De pronto la tormenta furiosa nos dejó desnudos. / The furious storm left us naked. 96 / 97 ?
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Simon & Schuster The Maps of Memory
Book SynopsisTrade Review*"Captivating and exquisite." -- Kirkus, starred review
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Atheneum Books VIVí En El Cerro Mariposa (I Lived on Butterfly
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Atheneum Books Los Mapas de la Memoria (the Maps of Memory):
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Anthem Press Refugees, Refuge, and Human Displacement
Book SynopsisEvery American is a descendant of either a Native American, and enslaved person, an immigrant, or a refugee. This book is devoted to the fourth category. The essays in this volume will study the concept of refuge as well as historical forced displacement and statelessness, trying to provide potential lasting solutions to the many problems associated with this situation. This volume is not only timely but expansive, as it moves from the pressing crisis of refugees to the crisis of humanity that seeks to find refuge. From refugees to asylum seekers, from climate change to war, from historical uprootedness and displacement to today’s crisis of refugeeism, these topics are mobilizing humanities scholars to think about refugees with a new sense of urgency. This book demonstrates how interdisciplinary cultural approaches grounded in the humanities can transform refugee conversations so often dominated by political science, economics, and other disciplines. In doing so, the collection sets up far more inclusive refugee discussions and urges humanities thinkers to respond by taking the lead in the face of environmental and sociopolitical uncertainties.Trade Review“Ranging from history to literature and ἀlm to mental health to environmental responsibility to academic sanctuaries, this collection is a truly multi-disciplinary, global, and temporally expansive exploration of what it means to seek out demand and create refuge. It aims to both re-open and advance a conversation that is crucial for our times” — Aline Lo, Assistant Professor of Asian American Literature, Department of English, Colorado College, USA.“This new volume oḀers wide-ranging perspectives on refugee experience from scholars working in and across numerous disciplines, time periods, and geographic spaces. The contributions are tied together by a concern for the ethical treatment of refugees, with meditations on care, safety and self-determination amid trauma and continuing forced migration” — Mai-Linh K. Hong, Assistant Professor of Literatures, Languages, and Cultures, University of California, Merced, USA.“An accessible and wide-ranging anthology, Refugees, Refuge, and Human Displacement brings together essays that reᴀect on the refuge as a practice, idea and place. With essays on literature, ἀlm, song, dance, health care, the environment and the university campus, the authors respond expansively to a call for, in the words of Saharawi intellectual and activist Bahia Mahmud Awah, ‘the solidarity of others’” — Naimou Angela, Associate Professor, Department of English, Clemson University, USA.Every American is a descendant of either a Native American, and enslaved person, an immigrant, or a refugee. Collaboratively compiled and co-edited by Ignacio Lopez-Calva and Marjorie Agosin, "Refugees, Refuge, and Human Displacement" is devoted to that fourth category. The essays comprising "Refugees, Refuge, and Human Displacement" study the concept of refuge as well as historical forced displacement and statelessness, trying to provide potential lasting solutions to the many problems associated with this situation. This volume is not only timely but expansive, as it moves from the pressing crisis of refugees to the crisis of humanity that seeks to find refuge — Midwest Book Reviews (The Social Issues)Table of ContentsIntroduction, Ignacio López-Calvo and Marjorie Agosín; PART ONE HUMANITY AND HUMAN DISPLACEMENTS, Chapter One; Chapter Two; PART TWO SEEKING REFUGE, Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; PART THREE ACTS OF CREATING REFUGE, Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; PART FOUR APPROACHES TO CONSTRUCTING REFUGE, Chapter Ten; Chapter Eleven;Chapter Twelve; Chapter Thirteen; Index
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Atheneum Books VIVí En El Cerro Mariposa (I Lived on Butterfly
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Atheneum Books Los Mapas de la Memoria (the Maps of Memory):
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Solis Press A Manifesto: Healing a Violent World
Book SynopsisAll caregivers are called upon to recognize both the pain and beauty in this world and to help move society towards an “Ideal City”. Beauty is the aesthetic by which healers can care for their patients. The book proclaims three manifestos for healing: • Healing a Violent World. Healers of every type are called on to reduce the pain of human suffering by working towards a non-violent, empathetic world. • Healing the Healer. Those who give care to the suffering patient in turn suffer themselves, and this manifesto asks that healers recognize their vulnerability, and to engage in conversation to help them towards diminishing the pain that they feel. • Healing Power of Justice. Justice needs to be recognized as the pathway to healing. Justice is a powerful force for human and social transformation and its pursuit is both intense and often tragic. These three manifestos, together with the sentiments of poetry that intersperses them, are published here to awaken your sense of healing. This book is published in partnership with the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma (HPRT) which has pioneered the health and mental health of survivors of mass violence and torture, refugees, and traumatized communities worldwide over the past four decades.Table of ContentsPreface by Charles Figley | Manifesto I: Healing a Violent World by Richard F. Mollica | A Woman Dreams Between the Thresholds, poem by Marjorie Agosín | Manifesto II: Healing the Healer by Richard F. Mollica | Carriers of Life, poem by Marjorie Agosín | Manifesto III: Healing Power of Justice Richard F. Mollica | Psalm 85:10 Compassion and Truth Met; Peace and Justice Kissed, poem by Marjorie Agosín | Moments of Revelation Richard F. Mollica | Afterword Marjorie Agosín | Pearls of Observation on our Violent World poems by Marjorie Agosín | On Beauty and the Obligation to Care: Commentary by Nisha Sajnani | Relationships: The Lighthouses of our Generation: Reflections on the Manifestos by Hanna Solomon and Chris Mollica | Author Biographies
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