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Beasts Behave in Foreign Land
Contributor(s): Sanabria, Ruth Irupe (Author)
ISBN: 1597097632     ISBN-13: 9781597097635
Publisher: Red Hen Press
OUR PRICE:   $15.26  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: April 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American - Hispanic American
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Places
- Poetry | Women Authors
Dewey: 811.6
LCCN: 2016048414
Physical Information: 0.2" H x 5.9" W x 9" (0.30 lbs) 84 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
- Holiday - Valentine's Day
 
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Winner of the Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize

Ruth Irup Sanabria's second collection of poetry, Beasts Behave In Foreign Land examines the internal landscape of a family confronting the psychological and emotional aftershocks of genocide and exile. Drawing on her personal experience during Argentina's military dictatorship (1976 to 1983), these poems emerge from the defining moment in which she had the opportunity to testify in the trials against the Fifth Army Corps in Bahia Blanca, thirty-seven years after soldiers kidnapped, tortured, and imprisoned her parents. Weaving metaphor, ekphrasis, and voice, Sanabria's poems pay tribute to the ways women in her family use art, music, and testimony to process the unspeakable and confront profound loss. Written in two sections and set in various cities throughout Argentina and the United States, the poems in Beasts Behave in Foreign Land explore the insistence and resiliency of love.

Contributor Bio(s): Sanabria, Ruth Irupe: - Ruth Irupé Sanabria's first collection of poetry, The Strange House Testifies (Bilingual Press), won second place (Poetry) in the 2010 Annual Latino Book Awards. Her second collection of poems received the 2014 Letras Latinas/Red Hen Press Award and will be published in 2017. Her poems have appeared in journals such as Women Writing Resistance and U.S. Latino Literature Today. She holds an MFA from NYU and a B.A. in English and Puerto Rican & Hispanic Caribbean Studies from Rutgers. She works as a high school English teacher and lives with her husband and three children in Perth Amboy, NJ.