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A Pan-American Life: Selected Poetry and Prose of Muna Lee
University of Wisconsin Press, 2004 Cloth: 978-0-299-20230-9 | Paper: 978-0-299-20234-7 Library of Congress Classification PS3523.E3448A6 2004 Dewey Decimal Classification 818.52
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
The extraordinary Muna Lee was a brilliant writer, lyric poet, translator, diplomat, feminist and rights activist, and, above all, a Pan-Americanist. During the twentieth century, she helped shape the literary and social landscapes of the Americas. This is the first biography of her remarkable life and a collection of her diverse writings, which embody her vision of Pan America, an old concept that remains new and meaningful today. See other books on: Feminists | Literary collections | Poets, American | Prose | Selected Poetry See other titles from University of Wisconsin Press |
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A Pan-American Life: Selected Poetry and Prose of Muna Lee
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by Muna Lee
edited by Jonathan Cohen
foreword by Aurora Levins Morales
edited by Jonathan Cohen
foreword by Aurora Levins Morales
University of Wisconsin Press, 2004
Cloth: 978-0-299-20230-9
Paper: 978-0-299-20234-7
Cloth: 978-0-299-20230-9
Paper: 978-0-299-20234-7
The extraordinary Muna Lee was a brilliant writer, lyric poet, translator, diplomat, feminist and rights activist, and, above all, a Pan-Americanist. During the twentieth century, she helped shape the literary and social landscapes of the Americas. This is the first biography of her remarkable life and a collection of her diverse writings, which embody her vision of Pan America, an old concept that remains new and meaningful today.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Muna Lee (1895–1965) was a celebrated lyric poet, translator and advocate of Latin American literature, feminist, and scholar. She was the first wife of Luis Muñoz Marín, who became Puerto Rico’s first elected governor. She was appointed to a state department post by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and served as an inter-American cultural specialist from 1941 until her retirement in 1965.
Jonathan Cohen, author of prize-winning translations of Latin American poetry, is a pioneering scholar in the field of inter-American literature, for which he has received prestigious national research awards. He is writer/editor of the surgery department at Stony Brook University, and also a member of the affiliated faculty of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies program there.
REVIEWS
"A poet who is also a sound scholar, a mistress of tongues, and a profound believer in a cause, is a rare and wonderful thing. Muna Lee is all four."—Archibald MacLeish, in The American Story
"Jonathan Cohen has given us the exquisite gift of recognition: the life of Muna Lee—a poet, essayist, human rights activist, and indeed a visionary and fervent Pan-Americanist. Through Cohen's insightful and original biography, readers will get to know, as well as love, the spirit of Muna Lee, one of the most extraordinary and creative figures of the twentieth century, a builder of bridges and hopes. Cohen's work will not allow us to forget her. More so, it rescues her from the invisibility of her work and life. A magnificent tribute to a magnificent woman."—Marjorie Agosin, author of A Map of Hope: Women's Writing on Human Rights
"Jonathan Cohen’s edition of Muna Lee’s work and the accompanying biographical essay function . . . as a combined project of historical recovery . . . . It reclaims Lee’s place among American poets and establishes the importance of her work as a pan- Americanist whose entry into Puerto Rican society opened a path to a life-long concern with establishing closer cultural links between North and South America. . . . This collection, by gathering a significant selection of her work, helps us begin to appreciate an important figure in pan-American literature."—Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents Foreword by Aurora Levins Morales 000 Preface 000 <LINE SPACE> Muna Lee: A Pan-American Life 000 This Extraordinary Woman 000 From Mississippi to Oklahoma 000 Starting Out as a Poet 000 In the World of New York 000 Publishing Her Sea-Change 000 In the Pan-American Literary Tradition 000 Speaking Out for Pan-American Women 000 With the World on Her Back 000 Doing for Others and for Herself 000 Working for Pan-American Union 000 Translating Ecuador's Premier Poet 000 Doing The American Story 000 Getting Faulkner to Travel 000 In the End 000 Poetry Rich Port 000 Of Writing Verse 000 Planet 000 Hacienda 000 Dies Irae 000 Moonrise 000 On Going Ashore 000 Acacia Island 000 Night of San Juan 000 Atavian 000 Caribbean Marsh 000 Visitant 000 Deliverance 000 Carib Garden 000 Stalactite 000 Deserted Orchard 000 Albatross 000 Wayfarer 000 Summertime Notation in a Troubled World 000 Apology for All That Blooms in Time of Crisis 000 Nightpiece 000 By the Caribbean One Remembers the Prairie 000 Mushroom Town 000 The Thought of You 000 The Stars Are Colored Blossoms 000 Lips You Were Not Anhungered For 000 Survival 000 April Wind 000 I Have Had Enough of Glamour 000 A Woman's Song 000 Choice 000 Gifts 000 Imprisoned 000 The Confidante 000 Mid-Western 000 Tropic Rain 000 A Song of Dreams Come True 000 The Seeker 000 <LINE SPACE> Verse Translation Running Water (Alfonsina Storni; Argentina, 1892-1938) 000 You Say I Forget You, Celio (Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz; Mexico, 1651-95) 000 The Rose (Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz) 000 Love (Jaime Torres Bodet; Mexico, 1902-74) 000 Proletarians (Luis Muñoz Marín; Puerto Rico, 1898-1980) 000 Pamphlet (Luis Muñoz Marín) 000 Brother Dog (Luis Aníbal S nchez; Ecuador, 1902-22) 000 Horses of the Conquistadores (José Santos Chocano; Peru, 1875-1934) 000 Nameless Islands (Jorge Carrera Andrade; Ecuador, 1902-78) 000 Sunday (Jorge Carrera Andrade) 000 The Guest (Jorge Carrera Andrade) 000 Vocation of the Mirror (Jorge Carrera Andrade) 000 Place of Origin (Jorge Carrera Andrade) 000 Nameless District (Jorge Carrera Andrade) 000 Biography for the Use of the Birds (Jorge Carrera Andrade) 000 On Someone's Death (Eugenio Florit; Cuba, 1903-99) 000 Mob of Mountains (José Varallanos; Peru, 1907-97) 000 Andean Crossing (Alejandro Peralta; Peru, 1899-1973) 000 Provincial Moment (Asdrúbal Villalobos; Costa Rica, 1893-1985) 000 Elegy to the Invented Woman (Xavier Abril; Peru, 1905-90) 000 Vision of Moth-Eaten Pianos Falling to Pieces (César Moro; Peru, 1903-56) 000 The Illustrated World (César Moro) 000 Parable of Generosity (Antonio Spinetti Dini; Venezuela, 1900-41) 000 Man's Road (Enrique Peña Barrenechea; Peru, 1905-88) 000 Dregs (César Vallejo; Peru, 1892-1938) 000 Aboriginal Mother (Angelina Acuña; Guatemala, 1905-) 000 <LINE SPACE> Prose Poetry Every Day 000 Contemporary Spanish American Poetry 000 A Charming Mexican Lady 000 Brother of Poe 000 Pan-American Women 000 In Behalf of the Equal Rights Treaty 000 Paulina Luisi, Internationalist 000 Harriet Monroe: Poet and Pioneer 000 Notes from a Feminist's Travel Diary 000 Puerto Rican Women Writers: The Record of One Hundred Years 000 Cuban Literature 000 Cultural Interchanges between the Americas 000 The Inter-American Commission of Women: A New International Venture 000 José de San Martín 000 Juan de Castellanos in the Perspective of 350 Years 000 Two Seventeenth-Century Pen-Women: Anne Bradstreet of Massachusetts and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz of Mexico 000 Flowering in a Phrase 000 Eugenio María de Hostos: After One Hundred Years 000 Birds, Beasts, and Flowers, and Indians 000 Translating the Untranslatable: Can Poetry Stand the Change? 000 Governments Invest in Culture 000 <LINE SPACE> Appendix A: Letter from Muna Lee (1915) 000 Appendix B: Letter from Gloria Muñoz Arjona (1965) 000 Appendix C: Letter from Frances Klafter née Lee (2000) 000 Bibliography 000 Acknowledgments 000 Index 000
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