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Breathing Between the Lines: Poems (Camino del Sol) Paperback - 1997
by Demetria MartÃnez
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- Title Breathing Between the Lines: Poems (Camino del Sol)
- Author Demetria MartÃnez
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Signed
- Condition New
- Pages 61
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ, U. S. A.:
- Date 1997-01-01
- Features Dust Cover
- Bookseller's Inventory # 120326012C
- ISBN 9780816517985
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
- Ethnic Orientation: Latino
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Women's Interest
From the rear cover
In Breathing Between the Lines, the writer returns to poetry, her first love. From childhood, writing poems has been both a refuge and a release through the power of her own imagination. In 1988, however, Martinez's poetry was used against her in a federal indictment for smuggling Salvadoran refugees into the United States. The incriminating poem carried this punch line: "In my country, we sing of a baby in a manger, finance death squads". Seven long months later, she was acquitted. After the trial - "a poet's nightmare, in which words, so full of liberating possibilities, were twisted and used against me" - Martinez's poetry dried up. Years passed before "the miracle" of writing finally brought her reconciliation and a return to sanity from the searing experience. Once again, poetry now drives her life, fills her days, and gives meaning to a world gone crazy.