Looking Within: Selected Poems, 1954-2000
The African Cuban poet Nancy Morejón set out at a young age to explore the beauty and complexities of the life around and within her. Themes of social and political concern, loyalty, friendship and family, African identity, women's experiences, and hope for Cuba's future all found their way into her poems through bold metaphor and tender lyricism. This panoramic anthology, selected from ten volumes of Morejón's work and organized by theme, contains some poems that have already been acclaimed...
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A bilingual edition of poetry from an important Cuban poet.
Preface13Introduction19Wind67Rose69Impressions71Sophism 273Sophism 375Sophism 477Last Sophism79My Wolves and Your Birds81Tryptich I, II, III83Alluvion87The City Exposed91The Good Days93The Common Hours95I Might Have Been Able97Ritornello99Remains of the Coral Island101Woman with Fish103Seascape105Parrot Crossing Manrique Street107In Front of a Mirror109Ana Mendieta113Drawing119The Poets' Cafe121Faint Chronicle at the Tree of Migrations125A Rose127Corinthia Waters129Ocujal Mine131Mythologies133In the Country of Vietnam135April137In October and the Wind141Analysis of Melancholy145Swift String147So Say the Legends149To a Boy151To a Tree Expressly153Dawn155The Drum157Looking Within161Humus Immemorial163The Eyes of Eleggua165La Rebambaramba167In Praise of Nieves Fresneda171Guijes173Talking with a Serpent175Black Man177An Oakland Apple Tree179Baas181A Planter's Soliloquy183Silent Lullaby for South African Children185Anniversary187Instant191Epitaph for a Lady from Pretoria193Cook195I Love My Master197Black Woman201Persona205Mother211Brigida Noyola, Presente213Supper215Angela Dominguez, Presente219Home221Richard Brought His Flute225Tata at the Death of Don Pablo237Elegy for the Conversations239A Havana Patio245In the Shadow of the Streetcars247Coffee249Door to a Bridge251Pogolotti253Leaf of Grass259Flutes261Amber263Recovered Suite265Garden atop Pyramid267Parrots269Nets271Village Girl from Taxco275I Never Saw Great Lakes277Clarity279Jugglers281The Days of Summer283By the Gulf287Worlds291I Am with You, O Beautiful Time297Disillusion for Ruben Dario299As in Days Gone by301Carpet303Agonizing, Sad305The Artisans307Antonia Eiriz309South311Imitation of Juana Borrero313Flora Contemplates Flora315Words from an Alcatraz317Solaris319Lady of the Unicorn321Blind Ode325Lezama in the Afternoon331Glorious Landscape333In Praise of Dance335Alicia Alonso337Requiem for the Left Hand339Good-bye, Happiness341Another Nocturne343To Escape with a Wound345Running Beneath the Trees347Bottle at Sea349Divertimento353Glossary355Published Collections of Poems365
