Sargasso

by Isabel Allende, Cola Franzen (Translator)

This collection reflects the author’s deeply rooted passion for nature, for life, and for being. Agosín spent her summers at the Chilean seaside, near Neruda’s home at Isla Negra. “The sea, the rocks, marine images became important elements in my creative work,” she said recently. Here she creates a world where everything touches the sea and is, in turn, touched by it, a world peopled by those who “carry the scents of the river and the sign of water.”

“Agosín’s voice [is] ripe with sensuality.”â��Booklist

Genres: Poetry

92 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Isabel Allende Llona is a Chilean-American novelist. Allende, who writes in the "magic realism" tradition, is considered one of the first successful women novelists in Latin America. She has written novels based in part on her own experiences, often focusing on the experiences of women, weaving myth and realism together. She has lectured and done extensive book tours and has taught literature at several US colleges. She currently resides in California with her husband. Allende adopted U.S. citizenship in 2003.

Reviews

[s ☭ · Rating 4 out of 5]

i found this at a random used bookstore for 1 dollar and now it's one of my favorite poetry books ever like...

also this poem:

me supe sabia,
cuando dejé de preocuparme
de la textura
iracunda de mi piel
o de las hazañas del amor.
comprendí con
certeza que debía pasar
mi vida entera
aprendiendo a mirar al mar
y en la oscuridad de los sargazos,
inventar el nombre
de las estrellas.

like damn

[Jason · Rating 3 out of 5]

A Big heads up to whoever put this book on Goodreads:

Marjorie Agosin is the author, not Isabel Allende!!!

[Michael Caylo-Baradi · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've read this in the late 1990's. I think it still holds up.