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With 29 diverse essays, this book recounts intimate memories, reflections on writing, Caribbean motifs, and dialogues. All are brimming with passion and sincerity. This book is a reenactment of a life dedicated to that act that makes us very human; literature.

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• Prologo(p. 9)
• Espacios existenciales
• Meditacion extramuros(p. 15)
• El paisaje de Ponce(p. 25)
• Correspondencias(p. 33)
• Una conciencia musical(p. 39)
• Canes de mi corazon(p. 55)
• Los peligros del diminutivo(p. 61)
• Las madres kamikaze(p. 69)
• El oro de Colon(p. 75)
• Tres versiones del desembarco(p. 83)
• La torre del homenaje(p. 89)
• Otra vez los magos(p. 105)
• Testimonio de la voz puertorriquena(p. 109)
• El musculo del cerebro(p. 115)
• A donde fue a parar el Caribe Hilton?(p. 119)
• Espacios literarios
• La cocina de la escritura(p. 125)
• Como escribir lo que no se puede decir(p. 139)
• Como poner un huevo(p. 145)
• Ofelia a la deriva en las aguas de la memoria(p. 149)
• De la ira a la ironia(p. 163)
• Entre Clara y Julia(p. 169)
• Escribir entre dos filos(p. 173)
• Entre el ser y el tener(p. 181)
• Homenajes
• La fiesta de Ponce, de Rafael Rios Rey(p. 189)
• Don Miguel Pou(p. 195)
• La cruz y ficcion de Elizam Escobar(p. 197)
• Borges, el heroe ciego(p. 203)
• Octavio Paz, in memoriam(p. 207)
• Don Enrique: mas alla del Nobel(p. 211)
• La tirania de la carne(p. 215)

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Publishers Weekly Review

The daughter of the former governor of Puerto Rico, Ferre has become one of that island's leading literary figures, producing two novels, La casa de la laguna (The House on the Lagoon, Vintage, 1997, a National Book Award finalist) and Vecindarios exc?ntricos (Eccentric Neighborhoods, Random, 1999), two volumes of poetry, and three essay collections. This latest collection of essays again demonstrates intimate knowledge of her native island. From the first essay, which captures the mystery of an elegent cemetery in Old San Juan, to a later review of La fiesta del chivo (The Day of the Goat, see review, p. 31), Mario Vargas Llosa's recent novel about the infamous Domincan dictator Rafael Trujillo, Ferr? proves to be an erudite commentator on tropical tastes. Many of these short pieces focus on the literary world, where she rattles off her opinions on everyone from James Michener to Michel Foucault, but despite her underlying Eurocentrism, she does pay special attention to the literature and folklore of the Caribbean. Most pungent are her reveries about Puerto Rico the ghosts that haunt its colonial structures and the humid nights, flowery gardens, and sweaty boleros that its high society came to embrace, so far from their Spanish past. Recommended for all bookstores and libraries.--Ed Morales, New York City (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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Rosario Josefina Ferré was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico on September 28, 1938. She received a bachelor's degree in English literature from Manhattanville College, a master's degree in literature from the University of Puerto Rico, and a Ph.D. in Latin American literature from the University of Maryland. She was a professor of Latin American literature at several universities including the University of California, Rutgers University, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Puerto Rico.

She was a novelist, poet, essayist, and children's book author. She was the editor of the literary magazine Loading and Unloading Zone as well as a newspaper columnist and critic. She wrote several books in Spanish and English including The House on the Lagoon, Eccentric Neighborhoods, and Sweet Diamond Dust: And Other Stories. She died on February 18, 2016 at the age of 77.

(Bowker Author Biography)