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The light of desire = La luz del deseo / Marjorie Agosín ; translated by Lori Marie Carlson.

Agosín, Marjorie.; Carlson, Lori M.
2009
861.64 A275l 2009
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Title
The light of desire = La luz del deseo / Marjorie Agosín ; translated by Lori Marie Carlson.
Author
Agosín, Marjorie.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780974888170
0974888176
Imprint
Chicago : Swan Isle Press, ©2009.
Language
English
Language Note
Text in English and Spanish.
Description
85 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number
861.64 A275l 2009
System Control No.
(OCoLC)318873226
(OCoLC)318873226
Summary
"Marjorie Agosin's intensely personal long poem The Light of Desire is both a secular and sacred meditation on love and its meanings in the land of Israel. Following the tradition of the Song of Songs and the secular poetry of Sepharad, the beloved in The Light of Desire is both physical and metaphorical. The lovers' bodies are the paths, the geography, leading not only from desire to sensual pleasure, but to memory and illumination. The light on the pink stones of Jerusalem, the sunlight of Galilee, from hills to the sea, the fragrant air and "mantle of stars," all become one in this tender, rhapsodic expression of longing and desire. This is not unrequited love, but rather a reciprocal passion that brings exquisite pleasure, pain, a sense of fragility, and the hope and belief in that which is eternal."--Jacket.
Note
Bilingual text, with English on the right, Spanish on the left.
Added Author
Carlson, Lori M.
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