Contents
Foreword by Aurora Levins Morales 000
Preface 000
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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
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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
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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
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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