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"El español y el inglés han estado en guerra desde que la Reina Isabel hundió la Armada Invencible en el 1588", escribe Rosario Feré en "Duelo del lenguaje", el poema que da t'tulo a esta colección; "los lenguajes llevan con sigo todo su fuego y poderío".

Ferré explora las tensiones entre lenguas y culturas a través de esta colección de carácter controversial, que señala muchos de los dilemas a los que se enfrenta hoy una América cada vez más bilingüe.Estos poemas celebran tanto la antiquísima ciudad San Juan como las metrópolis más 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 América; un hombre de negocios bien vestido inesperadamente revela sus raíces cuando alguien le da un pisotón en el elevador del Ritz y suelta una maldición. Fotos instantáneas de los deambulantes que se desplazan por las calles de la capital, el cariño exuberante que siente un niño por su ciudad natal, los amantes cuya memoria perdura en el recuerdo, el rumor de la lluvia en el patio de atrás, que lava el remordimiento: he aquí algunos de los temas a la vez poéticos y cotidianos que se recogen en este libro.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

"English and Spanish have been at war since Queen Elisabeth sank King Felipe's Spanish Armada in 1588," Rosario Ferré writes in the title poem of Language Duel; "Language carries with it all their fire and power."

Ferré 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.

Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• Language Duel(p. 2)
• Language Current(p. 6)
• A Crack in the I(p. 8)
• La Parguera Bay(p. 10)
• Coming Up the Archipelago(p. 12)
• Caribeat(p. 20)
• The Humble Foot(p. 24)
• Miami Is a City of Tunnels(p. 28)
• The Bones of Conquerors(p. 30)
• Juan de Onate(p. 32)
• Saguaro Countdown(p. 36)
• 27th Floor N.Y.(p. 40)
• La Dama de Elche(p. 44)
• Spanish at the Ritz(p. 48)
• Counterpoint(p. 50)
• A Beso Is Not a Kiss(p. 52)
• Tongue Less(p. 54)
• Latino Halleluia(p. 56)
• The Poem(p. 58)
• Words as Vessels(p. 60)
• Almost Extinct(p. 62)
• Angel with Copper Eyes(p. 66)
• Snapshot in Black and White(p. 70)
• Abandoned House(p. 74)
• Second Millennium Santa(p. 76)
• Brother and Sister(p. 80)
• Walking Fountains(p. 86)
• The Colonial Experience(p. 90)
• Mary and Elizabeth(p. 92)
• Pinot Noir(p. 94)
• Twin Towers(p. 96)
• Poems from The Two Venices
• Watercolor(p. 104)
• Giorgione(p. 106)
• Rialta's Laughter(p. 110)
• Channel Author(p. 112)
• The Grand Canal(p. 114)
• Death in Venice(p. 116)
• Venetian Glass Beads(p. 118)
• Hoffmann's Barcarole(p. 120)
• Homeless WDC(p. 122)
• Ode to the Unknown Soldier(p. 124)
• Conceptual Art(p. 128)
• The Shadow of Guilt(p. 134)
• Tropical Storm(p. 136)
• The Poem's Rumba(p. 138)
• The Sea Faring City(p. 140)
• Poems from Fables of the Bled Heron
• To the Knight of the Rose(p. 158)
• Requiem(p. 162)
• Opprobium(p. 164)
• Negative(p. 166)
• Positive(p. 170)
• Envoi(p. 174)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

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)