The light that puts an end to dreams new & selected poems - Sherman, Susan (Wings Press, 2012)
"Featuring a suite of poems for sor Juana Inés de la Cruz."
Front Cover; About the Author; Title Page; Copyright Page; Epigraph; Contents; Introduction, by Margaret Randall; Genesis; A Poem That Starts in Winter; Definitions; There Was a Woman Once; How a Face Changes; Duration; The Real Questions; Red; Genesis; Areas of Silence; What I Want; First & Last Poems; The Meeting; A Poem; A Quiet Poem; A Picture Perfect Day; Love Poem for a Capricorn; There Is Something Called Longing; A Fare/Well Present; Areas of Silence; The Fourth Wall; Here's a Poem; Reminiscences; The Fourth Wall; Lilith of the Wildwood, of the Fair Places; A Word to the Wise
Casualties of WarIt Was Easier Then; Facts; Letter from Havana; Long Division; Migration; Sixth Street Rhapsody; Long Division; Second Thoughts; The Plants; Awakening; It Is Raining; Holding Together; Morning Poem; Love Poem; Cantos for Elegua; Cantos for Elegua; Incantation; Return; Opening Stanzas; Testament; From Nicaragua a Gift; Elegy; Words; Barcelona Journal; Ten Years After; The Light that Puts an End to Dreams; A Suite of Poems for Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 119 With photographs by Joséphine Sacabo; Notes on text and photographs; Acknowledgments; Biographical Notes; Back Cover
An autobiography told in 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 significant events of the 20th century-the antiwar, 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 1