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Breathing Between the Lines: Poems (Camino del Sol)
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Breathing Between the Lines: Poems (Camino del Sol) Paperback - 1997

by Demetria Martínez

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University of Arizona Press, 1997-01-01. Signed. Paperback. Like New. 1997 paperback, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page, no other marks noted in text,AND AS ALWAYS SHIPPED IN 24 HOURS; and emailed to you a USPS tracking number on all orders; all books are sanitized and cleaned for your protection before mailing
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  • Title Breathing Between the Lines: Poems (Camino del Sol)
  • Author Demetria Martínez
  • 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
  • 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.

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About the author

Demetria Martnez is the author of the novel Mother Tongue, which won the 1994 Western States Book Award for fiction. She writes a national monthly column for the National Catholic Reporter and is involved in the Arizona Border Rights Project, which documents abuses by the U.S. Border Patrol. She lives in Tucson.