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you should title your reply with name of the book + author plus its number in the list. Check the list before posting, so you don't cross-post and mess up the math!
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I hope I have figured out the math. John W. dear, you should number your post for Kit Wright.
I am recommending this anthology edited by Marjorie Agosin.
Published by the admirable White Pine Press in 1994,
The reason for my nominating it being that it introduced to a broader public in the English speaking world, a wide selection of very fine women poets from Latin America who wrote in troubled times. Common to all is that they did not write in the expected "sweet" way, leaning on the religious themes that would not offend. Rather these women poets are political, erotic and critical of the roles to which they have been assigned. And their voices transcended both lingual and national barriers. The poets come from Costa Rica, Cuba, Uruguay, Honduras, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Colmbia, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Dominican Republic, Argentina, Guatemala, Niaragua, Eduador, Chile, Bolivia.
Does poetry matter? Can it change anything?
When she showed me her photograph
she said,
This is my daughter.
She still hasn't come home.
She hasn't come home in ten years.
But this is her photograph.
Isn't it true that she is very pretty?
She is a philosophy student
and here she is when she was
fourteen years old
and had her first
communion,
starched, sacred.
This is my daughter.
She is so pretty.
I talk to her every day.
she no longer comes home late, and this is why I reproach her
much less.
But I love her so much.
This is my daughter.
Every night I say goodbye to her.
I kiss her
and it's hard for me not to cry
even though I know she will not come
home late
because as you know, she has not come
home for years.
I love this photo very much.
I look at it every day.
It seems that only yesterday
she was a little feathered angel in my arms.
(By Marjorie Agosin, Chile)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Agos%C3%ADn
I could write a short essay on WHY this is poetry, about what tools are used here to make it so, but this is a smart bunch of readers, so you can do that analysis yourself.