Marjorie Agosin

Biographic Data

ID703200
NAMEMarjorie Agosin
GIVEN NAMESMarjorie
FAMILY NAMEAgosin
SIGNATUREAGOSIN M
AFFILIATIONSWellesley College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS64
TOTAL CITATIONS9
AUTHOR COUNT64
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Pablo Neruda in Context

    Open AccessMarjorie Agosin, Martín Camps et al.BOOKPablo Neruda in Context2026

    Pablo Neruda in Context includes forty-two essays by some of the main experts on Pablo Neruda's oeuvre that focus on how his places of residence and travel (Mexico, Argentina, Spain, France, Asia), the landmark event of the Cold War, as well as literary and political influences affected his poetic evolution. It also considers the other genres of his writing, including memoirs, letters, translation, and drama, as well as the musical and film adapt…

  • From Notes to the Sea: A Journal

    Marjorie Agosin, Suzanne Jill LevineARTICLEReview Literature and Arts of the…2023

    This sea, perhaps my only sea, has few islands to spare. Perhaps only two, quite far away. I think of the solitude of those two islands under a rainfall of ashes. When my heart was a mere seed, pop

  • AMY K. KAMINSKY, The Other/Argentina: Jews, Gender, and Sexuality in the Making of a Modern Nation. Albany: Suny Press, 2021

    Open AccessMarjorie AgosinARTICLEEIAL - Estudios Interdisciplinarios…2023

  • Sea Notes

    Marjorie Agosin, Suzanne Jill LevineARTICLEWorld Literature Today2021

    a POETRY 44 WLT AUTUMN 2021 E Sea Notes by Marjorie Agosín The sky over tonight’s sea is a mirror of glittering fireflies. Writing expands, attentive to this limitless sea that, night after night, grows even more immense. In the distance a tear splashes and slides in the sand. This sea, perhaps only my sea, has only a few islands to spare. Perhaps only two, quite far away. I think of those two lonely islands under a rainfall of ashes. When my hea…

  • Four Poems

    Marjorie Agosin, Marjorie Agosín Marjorie Agosín et al.ARTICLEWorld Literature Today2014

  • Art against Dictatorship: Making and Exporting Arpilleras under Pinochet

    Marjorie AgosinARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review2014

    During the last two decades, cultural studies as well as gender studies have focused on the artistic production of civil society during authoritarian regimes in Latin America. From murals to street performances and handmade books sold in the streets, the work of artists has brought a deep awareness of creativity in censored societies. The arpilleras are undoubtedly one of the most striking art forms to emerge during the Pinochet regime.Jacqueline…

  • I don't do lunch

    Marjorie Agosin, Laura Rocha NakazawaARTICLEMeridians2002

    Research Article| September 01 2002 I don't do lunch Marjorie Agosín; Marjorie Agosín marjorie agosín is a poet, human rights activist, and Professor of Spanish at Wellesley College. She has written approximately thirty books of poetry, memoirs, and essays. Her most recent collections are Rain in the Desert and The Angel of Memory, both poetry. She is the recipient of international prizes for her poetry and human rights activism. Search for other…

  • A Dream of Light and Shadow: Of Women Writers

    Open AccessSilvia Sauter, Marjorie AgosinARTICLEChasqui2001

  • Passion, Memory, and Identity: Twentieth-Century Latin American Jewish Writers

    Leora Lev, Marjorie AgosinARTICLESouth Atlantic Review2000

  • Violence in Argentine Literature: Cultural Responses to Tyranny

    Marjorie Agosin, David William FosterARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1997

  • Neruda’s Isla Negra

    Marjorie AgosinARTICLENACLA Report on the Americas1996

    After years of silence imposed by the military, Isla Negra, the fabled home of poet Pablo Neruda, is once again a blossoming cultural center. The island is an oasis in a dark and confusing post-coup history of consumerism

  • Sagrada memoria: Reminiscencias de una nina judia en Chile

    Roberta Gordenstein, Marjorie AgosinARTICLEHispania1996

  • Always From Somewhere Else Reflections on Exile

    Marjorie AgosinARTICLENACLA Report on the Americas1995

    To live in exile is to lose the familiarity of your own face, and walk the streets of foreign cities without being recognized by anyone. For a writer, exile is the solitude imposed in the house of memory, the mirrors we carry around inside

  • Patchwork of Memory

    Marjorie AgosinARTICLENACLA Report on the Americas1994

    Additional informationNotes on contributorsMarjorie AgosinMarjorie Agosin is a Chilean poet and professor of Spanish literature at Wellesley College. She is the author, most recently, of Happiness (White Pine Press, 1994). Translated from the Spanish by NACLA

  • How to Speak with the Dead? A Poet's Notebook

    Marjorie AgosinARTICLEHuman Rights Quarterly1994

    And there they were, numbed in their millennial and captivating pain. They were there, inclined, dangling in an invisible net of suspended time. I approached them. I wanted to speak to them, but what could I ask them? How could I comfort them? With what right could I enter their lives, sealed by political violence? How to ask them what it means to be the mother of a disappeared? Of a political prisoner? Why should I see them cry? To be Latin Amer…

  • Violeta Parra o la expresión inefable: Un anális crítico de su poesía, prosa y pintura

    Open AccessBeth Pollack, Inés Dölz Blackburn et al.ARTICLEChasqui1993

  • The Seaside Ladies/Las Damas del Océano Conch Shell/Caracola

    Open AccessCola Franzen, Marjorie AgosinARTICLERethinking Marxism1993

  • Democracy for a Ghost Nation

    Marjorie Agosin, Paula M VegaARTICLEHuman Rights Quarterly1993

    During sixteen monstrous years of dictatorship (1973-1988), 1 would travel to my native Chile. I longed to see the faces of the people, to take in the aroma of peaches and summer, to behold from the heights and the distance the implacable Andes. Touching down on the Chilean soil implied an endless number of consequences, such as possible detention by the national police due to my suspicious activities, which consisted of writing poetry against th…

  • The Generation of Disenchantment

    Marjorie AgosinARTICLEHuman Rights Quarterly1992

    In Chile, my generation was called the generation of disenchantment. Those of us born between 1950 and 1955 found ourselves involved in the eternal ceremonies of fear and violence. We were the children of war. It was common among the students to see buses that burst into flames on the sidewalks or older women being dragged away by their beautiful long hair. The generation that came after ours, those born between 1960 and 1970, saw us as anomalous…

  • Neruda in the Soul, Neruda in Isla Negra

    Marjorie Agosin, Janice MolloyARTICLEHuman Rights Quarterly1991

    And this time I am delirious as I return to isla Negra. My feet do not stop on the dusky street corners inhabited by those old fears, fears of funerals and of dead people who did not deserve their shattering deaths. This time I return accompanied by the strange glow of the winter's sun, that soft companion of prisoners who, at the beginning of another day of terror, only want to be caressed by a sympathetic sunbeam. I head for Don Pablo Neruda's …

  • Questions

    Marjorie Agosin, C Kostopulos-CoopermanARTICLEHuman Rights Quarterly1991

  • The Dead of Tegucigalpa

    Marjorie Agosin, C Kostopulos-CoopermanARTICLEHuman Rights Quarterly1991

  • Letters of Love

    Marjorie Agosin, C Kostopulos-CoopermanARTICLEHuman Rights Quarterly1991

  • Paper Flowers Caribe Hilton South Africa Laureano's Autumns from Jerusalem Exiles

    Open AccessCola Franzen, Marjorie AgosinARTICLERethinking Marxism1990

  • Teresa Wilms Montt: A forgotten legend

    Open AccessMarjorie AgosinARTICLEWomen s Studies International Forum1990