Ilan Stavans

Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities and Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. An internationally renowned, award winning essayist and translator and the recipient of numerous honors, his recent books include "Quixote," "Borges," "The Jew" and "I Love My Selfie."

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Sor Juana

Nuestras Raices
University of Arizona Press
September 2018
ISBN 9780816536078
80 pages
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Sor Juana: Or, The Persistence of Pop encapsulates the life, times, and legacy of sixteenth-century Mexican nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Ilan Stavans provides a biographical and meditative picture of how popular perceptions of her life and work both shape and reflect Latinx culture. More/less

The Wall (Pitt Poetry Series)

Nuestras Raices
University of Pittsburgh Press
March 2018
ISBN 9780822965282
120 pages
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The Wall is a poetic exploration--across time, space, and language, real as well as metaphorical--of the U. S.-Mexican wall dividing the two civilizations, of similar walls (Jerusalem, China, Berlin, Warsaw, etc.) in history, and of the act of separating people by ideology, class, race, and other subterfuges. It is an indictment of hateful political rhetoric. In the spirit of Virgil's Aeneid and Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Master, it gives voice in symphonic fashion to an assortment of participants (immigrants, border patrol, soldiers, activists, presidents, people dead and alive) involved in the debate on walls. It brings in elements of literature and pop culture, fashion and cuisine. Poetry becomes a tool to explore raw human emotions in all its extremes. More/less