The Light That Puts an End to Dreams New and Selected Poems

by Sherman, Susan; Randall, Margaret; Sacabo, Joséphine

• ISBN13: 9780916727949
• ISBN10: 0916727947
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-06-01
• Publisher: Wings Press
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Summary

An autobiography told in poems and prose poems, this selection of work spans more than 40 years, beginning with the avant-garde arts movement and political activism of the 1960s. A mixture of intense political poems, intimate love poems, and provocative reflections, it traces the journey of a woman intimately involved with many of the most important events of our timethe anti-war, feminist, and gay liberation movements, including time spent in Chile, Nicaragua, Cuba, and Barcelona. Accompanied by exquisite photographs, this collection culminates with a suite of 12 poems connecting contemporary history with the 17th century world of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz.

Author Biography

Susan Sherman is a poet, playwright, essayist, editor, and cofounder of IKON magazine. She is the author of America’s Child: A Woman’s Journey through the Radical Sixties and The Color of the Heart: Writing from Struggle & Change 1959-1990. She lives in New York City. Margaret Randall is a feminist poet, writer, photographer, and social activist. She is the author of more than 80 books, including Sandino’s Daughters: Testimonies of Nicaraguan Women in Struggle, Stones Witness, and Their Backs to the Sea: Poems and Photographs. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Josephine Sacabo is a renowned photographer whose work appears in many books, such as a reissue of the classic Mexican novel Pedro Páramo as well as in the permanent collection of numerous museums, including the Houston Museum of Fine Arts; the New Orleans Museum of Art; the Wittliff Collection of Southwestern and Mexican Art; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.