9780982278499 - Gazing Through Water: Rasos d'água (Literature of the Americas) von Cabral, Astrid (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Gazing Through Water is a collection of poems by Brazilian writer and environmentalist Astrid Cabral. The poet confronts the personal imprint of time and age on herself and those around her, staking her claim for life on memory and words themselves, as she wrestles against loss and tragedy. Having grown up on the banks of the greatest river on earth, the Amazon, she naturally sees time incarnated in the river's muddy flow, to which she returns again and again. At first, the remembered river appears in its fecundity, but later what dominates is its inexorable flow to the sea. This volume, constructed from poems drawn from three collections--Gazing Through Water, The Waiting Room, and Intimate Soot--is Cabral's declaration of the poet's purpose in this uneven battle we all ultimately confront. With memory, she struggles to salvage the past, and with words she strives to give new substance, a cry of affirmation, to what has vanished.