Reeditado en múltiples ocasiones y durante varios años material de lectura en universidades norteamericanas, "Luisa en el país de la realidad" es, según palabras de la autora, "un libro de disgresiones, de realidad y de sueños. En mi itinerario poético es el libro que más quiero".

Luisa en el país de la realidad (Bovarismos) (Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Ediciones, La Pereza

Alegría, Claribel

Contemporary

La Pereza Ediciones

They Won't Take Me Alive: Salvadoran Women in Struggle for National Liberation

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Womens Pr Ltd

Halting Steps represents the most complete single-volume retrospective in English of Claribel Alegría’s seven-decade career. The volume collects all of Alegría’s poems from her fourteen previously published books and debuts several new poems under the title “Otherness.” 
Alegría was born in Nicaragua during the United States occupation of that country. Alegría’s family opposed the occupation and moved to El Salvador, where she grew up. Her poetry is not only lyrical and introspective but also politically engaged. Her verse has always spoken forcefully, specifically, and fearlessly to matters of social justice in her region. She strikes a universal theme, however, in giving a voice to individuals of all classes in their struggle against oppression, but especially women who must contend with a system in which men hold the power and women are excluded. Alegría demonstrates her remarkable range with deeply personal poems, perhaps most notably in the poem cycle “Sorrow,” as she moves steadily through the waves of grief she experiences after her husband’s death. 
In Halting Steps, both longtime admirers and those new to her work can appreciate the sustained creative power of Claribel Alegría’s poems.

Halting Steps: Collected and New Poems

Poetry

Curbstone Books

Poems convey the author's thoughts and ideas and views on politics in Central America

Woman of the River (Pitt Poetry Series) (English and Spanish Edition)

Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

1982 First. New. Flowers from the Volcano (Pitt Poetry Series)

Flowers from the Volcano (Pitt Poetry Series)

Forché, Carolyn

In Woman of the River one of the major voices in Latin American poetry confronts the political realities of contemporary Central America. Many of the poems are political, direct, and condemnatory of the United States’ presence in Latin America, and they are rich, human documents rooted in Alegria’s knowledge of and love for her subjects. As Carolyn Forche has written of Alegria’s previous selection of poems, Flowers from the Volcano: “These poems are testimonies to the value of a single human memory, political in the sense that there is no life apart from our common destiny. They are poems of passionate witness and confrontation. Responding to those who would state that politics has no place in poetry, she would add her voice to that of Neruda’s: we do not wish to please them . . . .” She carries within her the ancient blood of the Pipiles and laces her language with mesitizo richness.”

Woman Of The River: Bilingual edition (Pitt Poetry Series) (English and Spanish Edition)

History & Criticism

University of Pittsburgh Press

Luisa, a young girl growing up in El Salvador tries to adapt to her country's violent and changing character

Luisa in Realityland

United States

Curbstone Press

Claribel Alegría, born in Estelí, Nicaragua, in 1924, is one of the great voices in twentieth-century Latin American poetry. She left her family's Nicaraguan coffee plantation to spend her childhood in exile in El Salvador. Her writing of the 1950s and 1960s reflects the views of the "Committed Generation" of Central America, seeking social and political justice for its citizens. She shared the Casas de las Americas poetry prize in 1978 with Nicaraguan poet Gioconda Belli. In 1979, when the Sandinistas overthrew the Somoza regime, she returned to Nicaragua to help it rebuild. While both countries claim her, she credits the 1980 assassination of Salvadoran archbishop Oscar Romero as the pivotal event of her revolutionary commitment.Alegría's mature work reflects her anger and sense of loss over the murdered and "disappeared" throughout Latin America. "Because of them I called myself a cemetery," she notes. She praises women poets giving voice to the victims of state terror. Her major works include I Survive (1978), Flowers from the Volcano (1981), Sorrow (1999), and Casting Off (2003). In this volume, published in Madrid as Otredad in 2011, she separates her writing from her daily existence: "She who writes is the other one."

Otredad / Otherness (English, Spanish and English Edition)

West End Press

Claribel Alegria combines poetry, fiction, and historical narrative about her early childhood in Santa Ana, El Salvador.

Women's Fiction

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Claribel Alegria's most complete anthology that spans from her first published poems in 1948 to her last in 2014. This anthology was selected by Claribel.

Pasos Inciertos: Antologia 1948 - 2014 (Spanish Edition)

Flakoll, Erik

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Luisa en el país de la realidad (Bovarismos) (Spanish Edition)

They Won't Take Me Alive: Salvadoran Women in Struggle for National Liberation

Halting Steps: Collected and New Poems

Woman of the River (Pitt Poetry Series) (English and Spanish Edition)

Flowers from the Volcano (Pitt Poetry Series)

Woman Of The River: Bilingual edition (Pitt Poetry Series) (English and Spanish Edition)

Luisa in Realityland

Otredad / Otherness (English, Spanish and English Edition)

Luisa in Realityland

Pasos Inciertos: Antologia 1948 - 2014 (Spanish Edition)