Witches and Other Things
(Brujas y algo más)
By Chilean author Marjorie AgosínTranslated by Cola Franzen
ISBN: 0-935480-16-1
Price: $11.00
Pages: 96
"[Agosín] never strays
from the corporeal on her journey to the spiritual: her verses
are tinged with bodily fluids and scented with earthly aromas."
--Latin American in Books
"In 'Mis amigas,' 'Nevada,' and other poems, the poet
explores the stereotypical roles of women (prostitution,
frigidity, the social rites of puberty, the pretentiousness of
the burgesa) and subverts them with dark undercurrents
of pain, anger, and the arcane knowledge of their inauthenticity."
--America Review
"This dual-language book...offers an excellent selection of
poetry by this emerging young Chilean writer. Among the themes
treated here are the feminist, the erotic, the
creative-writing process, love, life, political and moral
corruption, and Chile...the prologue by a major Mexican writer
(Elena Pontiatowska) indicates the importance of Marjorie
Agosín in current Spanish American literature."
--Choice