Poetry. Comprising very sensual poetry, BECAUSE YOU LOVE is the second collection by a world-traveling translator, teacher, scholar, and lover of cross-cultural experience Maria Bennett.

Author City: Bogota, NJ USA

Maria Bennett teaches creative writing at Hostos Community College of the City University of New York, where she has been an Assistant Professor of English for twenty-seven years. Her original poetry has appeared in many magazines and journals, including California Quarterly, Timber Creek Review, and Gargoyle. Her translations of the poets Nancy Morejón, Ernesto Cardenal, and Cintio Vitier have appeared in Nexus, Crab Creek Review, and Esprit magazines, and she is currently completing the translation of the works of the Spanish poet Carlos Edmundo de Ory. Ms. Bennett has also published articles and reviews in The Daily News, Utne Reader, Epicurean, and other newspapers and magazines. Her critical work The Unfractioned Idiom: Hart Crane and Modernism was published by Peter Lang Press in 1987.