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The Selected Poems of Rosario Castellanos (Palbra Sur Book)

1 review
Rosario Castellanos

Graywolf Pr, 1989

A frequently dark collection of poems
"The Selected Poems of Rosario Castellanos" is a bilingual collection of the work of this important woman poet of Mexico. This is a bilingual edition, with Castellanos' Spanish originals and the English versions on facing pages. The poems have been translated by Magda Bogin, who co-edited the volume with Cecilia Vicuna. Castellanos' work has a somber, introspective quality. Many of her poems are ...

The Book of Lamentations

4 reviews
Rosario Castellanos

Marsilio Publishers, 1996

A shocking, enlightening novel of an uprising in Chiapas.
I have just had the pleasure of reading one of the most exciting and challenging books that I will read this year, and it's only January. The book is titled The Book of Lamentations and it was written in 1962 by the now deceased Rosario Castellanos. It has only recently been translated by Esther Allen, for reasons that are now completely obscure to me, since after reading it, you'll wish ...

Balun Canan
Rosario Castellanos

Fondo de Cultura Economica Mexico, 2000

Novela que relata una serie de sucesos cotidianos que tienen lugar en un poblado chiapaneco cercano a Guatamela, Balún-Canán. En medio de la tensión en que coexisten dos mundos opuestos -el del hombre blanco y del indio chontal- se mueven diversos personajes en cuya vida se refleja una lucha dramática y ancestral entre dos razas.

Another Way to Be: Selected Works of Rosario Castellanos
Rosario Castellanos

Univ of Georgia Pr, 1990

Balun Canan

3 reviews
Rosario Castellanos

Fondo de Cultura Economica USA, 2007

A Beautiful Novel
This novel, written by one of Mexico's most famous modern poets, illustrates many of the issues present in Mexico after the revolution. The story follows the life of a young girl growing up in Chiapas after the revolution. The author writes poetry into her prose, combining the oral tradition with the politics surrounding the change of power, to create a subtle yet powerful novel about the ...

Nine Guardians

2 reviews
Rosarios Castellanos

Readers International, 1992

Very emotional book.
This book was at first very complicated becasue of the way it changes it's setting or happenings, but once you get to the 5 or 6 chapter things beggind to make lots more sense. There is lots of feeling in it's was of describing the thoughts that people are having, there is lots of warmth in this little girl who is the main character. This is the type of book that could be read only by those ...

"Circo Poético" Antología de poesía mexicana del siglo XX
Alfonso Reyes, Carlos Pellicer, ...

ediciones sm, 2003

City of Kings (Discoveries (Latin American Literary Review Pr))
Rosario Castellanos, Gloria Chacon De Arjona

Latin American Literary Review Press, 1993

stories, Mexico, tr R Rudder & G de Arjona

Ciudad Real
Rosario Castellanos

Aguilar, Altea, Taurus, Alfaguara, S.A. de C., 1997

Ciudad Real earned the author the Premio Villaurrutia in 1961.

Balún Canán (Colección Popular)
Rosario Castellanos

Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1990

Book is in the Spanish language. 291 pp. Novel by Mexican poet and novelist Castellanos (1925-1974) exploring the pressures of modern change on Mayan natives.

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