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Breathing Between the Lines: Poems Soft cover - 1997
by Martinez, Demetria
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Details
- Title Breathing Between the Lines: Poems
- Author Martinez, Demetria
- Binding Soft cover
- Edition 1st Edition
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 61
- Language ENG
- Publisher Univ of Arizona Pr, Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A.
- Date 1997
- Features Dust Cover
- Bookseller's Inventory # 005359
- 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.