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The Rivers Are Inside Our Homes - Couverture souple

Castells, Victoria María

 
9780268205676: The Rivers Are Inside Our Homes
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0268205671 ISBN 13 : 9780268205676
Editeur : University of Notre Dame Press, 2023

Synopsis

The Rivers Are Inside Our Homes handles themes of loss and exile, aging generations, fable and fairy tale, marriage and hurt, with the island of Cuba at its heart.

These incandescent poems by Cuban American poet Victoria María Castells explore how we can salvage our notion of paradise in an overspent Eden. In thwarted homes located in Havana and Miami, Rapunzel and her prince, persecuted nymphs, Morgause, and Bluebeard's wife speak to us directly, all in need of returning to safety. Confronting machismo, illness, heartbreak, and isolation, the poems depict how women are at the mercy of men, either husband or oligarch. Yet all generations of Cubans are bombarded with this need to return or to leave, to have both, to have neither.

Meanwhile, hurricane seasons add further instability to shelter and family, growing fiercer every year. Exile and displacement are accepted as permanent conditions. Latin America will mirror Cuba's violent struggles as conquered land and despotic object. From the colonial desecrations to fraught revolutionary aftermath, the search for home is lyrically charted by this contradictory land of suffering and dreams. Through these poems, dictators, grandmothers, mythical characters, and buccaneers are given voices of equal strength, challenging what constitutes truth under a prism of fantasy and desire.

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À propos de l'auteur

Victoria María Castells is a creative writing teacher in Miami, Florida. Her poems have appeared in Reservoir, The Journal, Quarter After Eight, Notre Dame Review, and other literary journals.

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Éditeur
University of Notre Dame Press
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0268205671
ISBN 13 
9780268205676
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
102
Coordonnées du fabricant
University of Notre Dame Press
https://www.nd.edu/

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