Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. "Agosin's poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile...With her poems as our guide, we traverse history's darkest corridors, yet are reminded of the endurance of the human spirit. This is poetry that is both memorable and haunting"--Isabel Allende. "Marjorie Agosin's muses have first names and last names and they inhabit with their brilliance the poetry of this Chilean-American writer"--Elena Poniatowska.

Author City: WELLESLEY, MA USA

Marjorie Agosín, human rights activist, writer, and scholar, was born in Bethesda, MD, in 1955, but her family returned to Chile when she was only three months old. A descendant of Russian and Austrian Jews who fled pogroms and the Holocaust, she grew up in Santiago de Chile, where she attended the Instituto Hebreo (Jewish school) until she was fourteen. Then, the Pinochet dictatorship forced her family into exile. In 1971, they moved to the U.S., where Agosín completed her education. She is currently a professor of Latin American Studies at Wellesley College, MA.