Woman Who Has Sprouted Wings: Poems by Contemporary Latin American Women Poets

by Mary Crow (Editor)

"…a group of outstanding poets, many of whom, despite their obvious merit, are known only within their own countries…The fluent translations not only recreate faithfully the poets' works, but, more significantly, reflect the personal, intellectual, and emotional circumstances that prompted them."  — Choice

Genres: Poetry

208 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1986

About the author

Mary Crow, former Colorado Poet Laureate, was raised in Loudonville, Ohio, and educated at the College of Wooster, Indiana University, and the Iowa Writers Workshop. She came west to begin a creative writing and teaching career at Colorado State University. Along with teaching Creative Writing and Contemporary Poetry, Women Writers, South American and World Poetry, Crow also served as director of CSU's Creative Writing Program.

Crow's books of poetry include Addicted to the Horizon, I Have Tasted the Apple and Borders and three chapbooks, most recently The High Cost of Living. Her poetry translations include volumes of Jorge Teillier, Roberto Juarroz, Olga Orozco, and an anthology of contemporary Latin American women poets. Among her honors are Poetry Fellowships from the NEA and the Colorado Council on the Arts as well as three Fulbrights and writers’ residencies in Israel, Spain, Czech Republic, Scotland and the U.S.

Reviews

[Jessica · Rating 4 out of 5]

To write
words.
To trace chalk
in the high night.
To place the moon
landscape
in your brush of beeches.
To write on my way
as I live.
To cut out profiles
of words;
to draw with letters
tough statements
that cannot be said
(nor thought).
To write
the keys.
Only later
find what they open.

— Renata Pallottini

[Wendy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I came to know the work of many wonderful new poets thanks to this book.