BREACH OF TRUST/ABUSO DE CONFIANZA by Angel Escobar, Kristin Dykstra ( 9780817358730 )

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Title:

BREACH OF TRUST/ABUSO DE CONFIANZA

By:

Angel Escobar, Kristin Dykstra

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Paperback

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0817358730

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9780817358730

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Publisher:

THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESS

Pub. date:

30 June, 2016

Pages:

200

Language:

English, Spanish

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Synopsis:

Angel Escobar's Breach of Trust / Abuso de confianza is known by many as the most devastating book of his poetic generation. It is his first to be offered to an English-speaking audience. Merging personal and collective meditations, these twenty-three poems perform an indictment of violence. Escobar's poetry delineates lacerations etched on bodies and minds by the sanguinary twentieth century, which unfolded out of a longer modernity spanning the Americas. Breach of Trust / Abuso de confianza outlived its author, who took his own life in 1997. Brief and implicit appeals for justice and love offset the book's abject theatricality. Escobar's tragic masterpiece deftly interweaves themes into a striking synthesis offered in the spirit of survival. Award-winning translator Kristin Dykstra introduces this collection with a comprehensive examination of Escobar's life, work, and the times within which he wrote. Dykstra situates Escobar's poetic abjection as his drive to confront thingification face to (non)face.

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1 black & white illustration

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The University of Alabama Press

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