OTHER BOOKS

Carlota Caulfield is the editor of:

Literary and Cultural Journeys: Selected Letters to Arturo Torres-Ríoseco. (with Miguel Angel Zapata). Translated by Rosalie Torres-Ríoseco and Rose Passalacqua. Oakland: Center for the Book, 1995., 234 pages. Include photos. Cover Painting "El silencio y el hombre" by Jorge Valdivia Carrasco. Letters from, among others, Mariano Azuela, Eduardo Barrios, Marta Brunet, Camilo José Cela, Jorge Guillén, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Cecilia Meireles, Gabriela Mistral, Ernesto Sábato y Miguel de Unamuno.

The letters selected for this edition are linked by themes that deal, in general, with literary creation. These letters possess the power to transport the reader back to the time in which they were written. This power arises not only from the content of the letters but also from the extraordinary expressive talent of those who wrote them. Many of these letters are written in an informal tone and with a sense of humor in which word plays and personal, literary, and historical references abound.
You can order the book from: Mills College, Center for the Book: Ctrbook.order.html.

 
Web of Memories. Interviews with Five Cuban Women Poets.
Magali Alabau, Alina Galliano, Lourdes Gil, Maya Islas, Juana Rosa Pita. San Francisco: Eboli Poetry Series, 1997. 84 pages, in English. ISBN 0-932367-04-6. $9.95 plus $1.50 shipping & handling. Out of Print. A Second edition forthcoming.

Convinced that interviews provide valuable insights into the life and works of a poet, Caulfield sought out five outstanding Cuban women poets whose skillful cultivation of poetry and whose multiplicity of perspectives have made a significant contribution to Hispanic letters. In addition to the interviews, Caulfield provides a biographical sketch of each poet followed by the interview. Current bibliographies are supplied for each, listing works published in English and Spanish. The result is a volume which serves as an introduction to the lives, careers, and creative expressions of five accomplished Cuban women poets in exile.


 
Voces Viajeras. Poetisas cubanas de hoy. Colección Torremozas, 2002.ISBN 84-7839-271-8, PVP 1,000 / $10.00, español)

You can order this book from Ediciones Torremozas, Apartado 19.032, 28080 Madrid, España. E-mail: ediciones@torremozas.com, www.torremozas.com

In the U.S. you can order this book from InteliBooks, P.O. Box 9653, Oakland, CA 94613. http://inteliBooks.com/

Poesía femenina cubana en Ediciones Torremozas

No es de extrañar, dada su calidad, el interés de esta editorial española en la poesía escrita por mujeres en Cuba: Carlota Caulfield, Minerva Salado, Uva de Aragón, Odette Alonso, (y dentro de poco lo será Serafina Nuñez) han sido publicadas dentro de esta colección de sobria y clásica belleza. Comentemos hoy dos de sus últimos libros.

Comienzo con la antología Voces Viajeras (poetisas cubanas de hoy) con selección y prólogo de la también poeta y profesora Carlota Caulfield. Un tema la unifica, y a la vez la enriquece. El deseo de dejar memoria de la ciudad primera, crónica de las ciudades visitadas, homenaje a la ciudad que nos acojeLas viajeras y poetas que aquí se dan cita con Caulfield redimen en verso la precaria condición de una cubanidad itinerante. Suerte que la metáfora, como nos enseña María Zambrano, puede convertir el transitar en trascender.

La selección recoje muestras de las obras de Juana Rosa Pita, Minerva Salado, Magali Alibau, Maya Islas, María Elena Blanco, Alina Galliano, Elena Tamargo, Odette Alonso, Damaris Calderón. Trabajo ejemplar el de la antologadora no solo por la calidad de los textos, sino también por el rigor académico de su prólogo, y la cuidada selección de bibliografía sobre el tema que lo acompaña.

Pero quizás la nota más original en la concepción de este libro, es el espacio que concede a cada autora para definir en sus propias palabras su poética, gesto feminista de Caulfield que valida la voz singular dentro del colectivo. Entrega entonces con sus Voces viajeras, los mejores poemas y su "definición mejor".

Madeline Camara



 


The Other Poetry of Barcelona: Spanish and Spanish-American Women Poets. Carlota Caulfield, Jaime D. Parra, Editors. Introduction by Jaime D. Parra. Published by Corner, an imprint of InteliBooks. In English, Spanish and Catalan Softcover. 208 pages. ISBN: 0-9711391-8-0

Pems by Neus Aguado, Nicole d'Amonville Alegría, Carmen Borja, Carlota Caulfield, Marga Clark, Mariana Colomer, Gemma Ferrón, Concha García, Rosa Lentini, Gemma Mañá Delgado, M. Cinta Montagut, Ana Nuño, Teresa Pascual, Susanna Rafart, Teresa Shaw, Anabel Torres, and Esther Zarraluki.

(Translated by Monserrat Abelló, Mary G. Berg, Jonathan Boulding, Carlota Caulfield, Marga Clark, Angela MacEwan, Stacy McKenna, Annna Osán, and Anabel Torres).
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The present book, is dedicated to a group of Spanish and Spanish-American poets, all women, who for one reason or another have Barcelona as their point of reference. They write in Spanish or Catalan and are tightly linked, despite differences in their styles, tastes and even languages.

The Other Poetry of Barcelona is a collection of these voices, which have grown and developed around Barcelona in recent years. The poets included in this anthology are: Neus Aguado, Nicole d'Amonville Alegría, Carmen Borja, Carlota Caulfield, Marga Clark, Mariana Colomer, Gemma Ferrón, Concha García, Rosa Lentini, Gemma Mañá Delgado, M. Cinta Montagut, Ana Nuño, Teresa Pascual, Susanna Rafart, Teresa Shaw, Anabel Torres, and Esther Zarraluki.

The book includes an appendix with original poems in Spanish and Catalan, and bio-bibliographies of the poets.

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