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Title: Lyrical love letters of pain, memory, loss, and optimism.
Review: In Sorrow, a long time proponent of civil rights in Central America, plumbs the depths of grief and wrests hope from pain and memory in lyrics written as love letters to her deceased husband. These poems not only summon their shared past in vivid detail, but also ponder the meaning of death and separation, as well as the yearning for eventual reunion. Her's is an unforgettable, lyrical voice radiating strength and optimism in the face of loss and separation. Carolyn Forche has done a particularly excellent job of translation in this bilingual edition (Spanish/English). You Are Alive: You are alive in my breast/and only I can tell./You are the alchemist/who transforms our cries into poetry.
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