Melodious Women
By Marjorie AgosínEdited by Cori L. Gabbard
Translated by Monica Bruno Galmozzi
ISBN: 0-935480-91-9
Price: $14.00
Pages: 112
From the literary and mythical to the silently heroic, forty-five women are celebrated here by Marjorie Agosín through poems dedicated to their individuality and contribution to society and the world at large. Agosín empathizes with both the pain and wonder experienced by these women who range from Virginia Wolfe to Frida Kahlo, to Chilean folk singer Gala Torres, In her final poem "The City of Women," Agosín writes, "In the city of women, / they live among the gestures of love / and they live inventing words and rounded alphabets. / They are all like paradise, like Eden, / like life."
A prolific, prize-winning writer of prose and poetry, Agosín received her doctorate in Spanish American literature from Indiana University. She won first prize for poetry from Letras de Oro and the Latino Literature Prize, as well as endowments and scholarships from Fulbright, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for Humanities and New England Foundation for the Arts. Her poetry includes Towards the Splendid City, Circles of Madness, Women of Smoke (Latin American Literary Review Press, 1988), and Witches and Other Things (Latin American Literary Review Press, 1986 ). Agosín is currently a professor of Spanish at Wellesley College.