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Barbara Kingsolver is the author of sixteen books of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction and is the recipient of the National Humanities Medal. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the founder of the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. She lives with her husband on a farm in southern Appalachia.
Barbara Kingsolver belongs in the company of such poets as Clifton, Levertov, Hogan, Forche and Rich. Her pure American voice, chorded in both the great American languages, is rich with political and human resonance. --Ursula K. LeGuin [Kingsolver's] poems present a vision of an underprivileged America redressed, and are, in that respect, songs of hope and longing as opposed to howls of protest and despair. --Foreword Magazine Each poem is a true story; with some I was moved to tears. --Isabelle Allende The best of American political poetry, melding emotion and analysis, daily life and national issues, voice and heart. --Booklist These poems made me stop mid-book, telephone a friend and brave saying the unsayable - palabras del corazon that often go unsaid. --Sanda Cisneros This powerful collection of poetry deals with protest against political and social repression experienced by ordinary people, particularly women, under military regimes in Central and South America during the last 20 years. Through vivid imagery and compelling messages, Kingsolver makes a passionate appeal to end the suffering of victims of revolution, oppression, and war. --School Library Journal
