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Claribel Alegría

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Claribel Alegría (1924–2018) is often considered the most important contemporary Central American writer. She was born in Estelí, Nicaragua, but spent most of her youth in the Santa Ana region of western El Salvador because of her father’s political exile. In 1943 she came to the United States to study at George Washington University, where she received her bachelor’s degree in philosophy and letters. She would not return to her country of origin until 1979, after the Sandinista National Liberation Front took control of the government. Influenced by the political climate of Central America, Alegría’s poetry focused on the human condition in the region. Alegría’s numerous books of poetry include Anillo de silencio (1948), Acuario (1956), Huésped de mi tiempo (1961), Sobrevivo (1978), Mujer del río/Woman of the River (1989), Saudade (1999; Eng. Sorrow, 1999), and Soltando amarras (2002; Eng. Casting Off, 2003). Her two major poetry anthologies in Spanish include Una vida en poemas, ed. Conny Villafranca F. (2003), and Esto soy: Antología poética de Claribel Alegría, ed. Luis Alvarenga (2004). Posthumously, her work was included in Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology (2018).

Dispatches from the Republic of Letters

La poesía como espada

por Claribel Alegría

University of Oklahoma
780 Van Vleet Oval
Kaufman Hall, Room 105
Norman, OK 73019-4037

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