Moving between the speech and silence of a woman struggling to speak freely, Ruth Behar embarks on a poetic voyage into her own vulnerability and the sacrifices of her exiled ancestors as she tries to understand love, loss, regret, and the things we keep and carry with us. Behar's vivid renderings of wilted gardens, crashing waves, and firefly-lit nights recall the imagery of her inspiration, Dulce Marìa Loynaz, who is often known as the Cuban Emily Dickinson.
Presented in a beautiful bilingual English-Spanish edition-Behar serves as her own translator-Everything I Kept/Todo lo que guardé will haunt readers with the cries and whispers which illuminate the human spirit and the spectrum of emotions that make for a life and lives well-remembered.
| ISBN: | 9780997228724 |
| Publication date: | 12th June 2018 |
| Author: | Ruth Behar, Ruth Behar |
| Illustrator: | Rolando Estévez Jordán |
| Publisher: | Swan Isle Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 128 pages |
| Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets |
Moving between the speech and silence of a woman struggling to speak freely, Ruth Behar embarks on a poetic voyage into her own vulnerability and the sacrifices of her exiled ancestors as she tries to understand love, loss, regret, and the things we keep and carry with us. Behar's vivid renderings of wilted gardens, crashing waves, and firefly-lit nights recall the imagery of her inspiration, Dulce Marìa Loynaz, who is often known as the Cuban Emily Dickinson.
Everything I Kept features in the following genres: Poetry by individual poets
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Everything I Kept was written by Ruth Behar, Ruth Behar and published by Swan Isle Press
Everything I Kept has 128 pages