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Duelo Del Lenguahe/Language Duel

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  • ISBN-13: 9780375713842
  • ISBN: 0375713840
  • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

AUTHOR

Ferré, Rosario

SUMMARY

"English and Spanish have been at war since Queen Elisabeth sank King Felipe's Spanish Armada in 1588," Rosario Ferre writes in the title poem of Language Duel; "Language carries with it all their fire and power." Ferre explores this tension throughout this explosive collection, which plays with the sensual differences between the languages and lays bare many of the complications facing an increasingly bilingual America. In these poems, Miami is celebrated as a modern Tower of Babel and a place where the layers of history are particularly palpable. Wave after wave of conquerors wash across the Americas. A well-dressed Latino businessman inadvertently reveals his roots at the Ritz when someone steps on his foot, eliciting a profanity--in Spanish. Intimate snapshots capture the nameless heroism of homeless men, the exuberance of a child's affection for her hometown, and memories of lovers. "El espanol y el ingles han estado en guerra desde que la Reina Isabel hundio la Armada Invencible en el 1588", escribe Rosario Fere en "Duelo del lenguaje", el poema que da t'tulo a esta coleccion; "los lenguajes llevan con sigo todo su fuego y poderio". Ferre explora las tensiones entre lenguas y culturas a traves de esta coleccion de caracter controversial, que senala muchos de los dilemas a los que se enfrenta hoy una America cada vez mas bilingue. Estos poemas celebran tanto la antiquisima ciudad San Juan como las metropolis mas modernas: Miami, Nueva York, WDC. Pasado y presente, historia y sociedad se mezclan con una inmediatez sorprendente. Ola tras ola de conquistadores estalla sobre Norte America; un hombre de negocios bien vestido inesperadamente revela sus raices cuando alguien le da un pisoton en el elevador del Ritz y suelta una maldicion. Fotos instantaneas de los deambulantes que se desplazan por las calles de la capital, el carino exuberante que siente un nino por su ciudad natal, los amantes cuya memoria perdura en el recuerdo, el rumor de la lluvia en el patio de atras, que lava el remordimiento: he aqui algunos de los temas a la vez poeticos y cotidianos que se recogen en este libro.Ferré, Rosario is the author of 'Duelo Del Lenguahe/Language Duel' with ISBN 9780375713842 and ISBN 0375713840.

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