Women of Smoke
By Chilean poet Marjorie AgosínTranslated by Naomi Lindstrom
ISBN: 0-935480-34-X
Price: $11.00
Pages: 112
"The heroines of Marjorie Agosín's voices are women, and
the environment that surrounds them is smoke, that gaseous product
into which carbon particles are transformed to die: the voices of
her women including Penelope, Ariadne, Diana, Virginia Woolf, Olga
Orozco, Marta Traba, friends, compañeras, gypsies, lovers,
prisoners, victims of rape, suicides, homeless and silent women,
witches, beggars, loners, housewives, insomniacs, seem to stand
out in their due perspective in the 'narrations/of/women turned/
to smoke."
--Carmen Naranjo
"Marjorie Agosín's poetry is concerned with all women who
have suffered as they lived, and the smoke of her title is a
metaphor for the insidious discrimination that enshrouds and
smothers the efforts of many women to be productive."
--Hispania
"Agosín's poetic concern is women: homeless women, lost
women, gypsy women, women sentenced to death. Accessible,
immediate, and frank, her poems, here presented in both
Spanish and English, are about relationships rather than
individuals. Recommended where there is demand for Latina
poetry."
--Booklist