This large, bilingual collection contains work from more than 20 years
of writing, including a small -selection of new work, arranged by themes
fundamental to Agosín's artistic and critical oeuvre. Her rich Eastern
European and Latin American heritage, her experience in exile and her
profound humanistic vision accompany the poet as she writes about
ancestors, women, children, the poor and the disinherited. Despite the
difficult material she examines, Agosín expresses a need to -rejoice in
life and to believe in the possibility of change. Always searching for
life's bare essentials, -often in a spare language that reveals the
common threads that unite us all, Agosín explores such diverse
landscapes to make beauty and order out of pain and chaos.