Marilyn Buck, political prisoner at FCI Dublin, has translated and written an introduction to a book of poetry by Uruguayan poet Cristina Peri Rossi. Come celebrate this achievement and hear excerpts from this beautiful book at one of the book release parties happening in May. See below for full information.
Book Release Celebration!
STATE OF EXILE
By Cristina Peri Rossi Translated and with an introduction by Marilyn Buck
“State of Exile is a haunting work that sat for decades, awaiting, like cicadas, its proper season. That time is now.” --Mumia Abu-Jamal
In the first years of her exile from Uruguay, lesbian poet, author, journalist and social activist Cristina Peri Rossi penned an extraordinary collection of poems – spare, beautiful poems fueled by the experiences of forced migration, poems so personal, she didn’t publish them for almost 30 years.
Now, in a collaboration across prison walls, continents and states of exile, U.S. political prisoner and poet Marilyn Buck has translated Peri Rossi’s poems into English. The poems are accompanied by two brilliant essays on exile, one by Peri Rossi, written for Spanish publication in 2003, and the other by Marilyn Buck for this bi-lingual City Lights edition.
http://www.prisonactivist.org/pps+pows/marilynbuck/
Book Release Celebration!
City Lights Bookstore Wednesday, May 14 7pm
261 Columbus, San Francisco
Readers:
Devorah Majors
David Meltzer
Graciela Trevisan
La Pena Cultural Center Tuesday, May 20 7pm
3105 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley
Maisha Quint, MC
Readers:
Cherrie Moraga
Mitsuye Yamada
Graciela Trevisan
$10 donation
Freedom Archives
522 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
415 863-9977
www.Freedomarchives.org
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