A Pan-American Life: Selected Poetry and Prose of Muna Lee,9780299202347

A Pan-American Life: Selected Poetry and Prose of Muna Lee

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ISBN13: 9780299202347
ISBN10: 0299202348
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Pub. Date: 2004-11-15
Publisher(s): Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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Summary

The extraordinary Muna Lee was a brilliant writer, lyric poet, translator, diplomat, feminist and rights activist, and, above all, a Pan-Americanist. During the twentieth century, she helped shape the literary and social landscapes of the Americas. This is the first biography of her remarkable life and a collection of her diverse writings, which embody her vision of Pan America, an old concept that remains new and meaningful today.

Author Biography

    Muna Lee (1895–1965) was a celebrated lyric poet, translator and advocate of Latin American literature, feminist, and scholar. She was the first wife of Luis Muñoz Marín, who became Puerto Rico’s first elected governor. She was appointed to a state department post by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and served as an inter-American cultural specialist from 1941 until her retirement in 1965.
    Jonathan Cohen, author of prize-winning translations of Latin American poetry, is a pioneering scholar in the field of inter-American literature, for which he has received prestigious national research awards. He is writer/editor of the surgery department at Stony Brook University, and also a member of the affiliated faculty of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies program there.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Aurora Levins Morales xiii
Preface xxi
Muna Lee: A Pan-American Life
This Extraordinary Woman
3(1)
From Mississippi to Oklahoma
3(3)
Starting Out as a Poet
6(6)
In the World of New York
12(4)
Publishing Her Sea-Change
16(3)
In the Pan-American Literary Tradition
19(6)
Speaking Out for Pan-American Women
25(5)
With the World on Her Back
30(2)
Doing for Others and for Herself
32(10)
Working for Pan-American Union
42(4)
Translating Ecuador's Premier Poet
46(3)
Doing The American Story
49(10)
Getting Faulkner to Travel
59(7)
In the End
66(11)
Poetry
Rich Port
77(1)
Of Writing Verse
78(1)
Planet
79(1)
Hacienda
80(1)
Dies Irae
81(1)
Moonrise
82(1)
On Going Ashore
83(1)
Acacia Island
84(1)
Night of San Juan
85(1)
Atavian
86(1)
Caribbean Marsh
87(1)
Visitant
88(1)
Deliverance
89(1)
Carib Garden
90(1)
Stalactite
91(1)
Deserted Orchard
92(1)
Albatross
93(1)
Wayfarer
94(1)
Summertime Notation in a Troubled World
95(1)
Apology for All That Blooms in Time of Crisis
96(1)
Nightpiece
97(1)
By the Caribbean One Remembers the Prairie
98(1)
Mushroom Town
99(9)
The Thought of You
108(1)
The Stars Are Colored Blossoms
109(1)
Lips You Were Not Anhungered For
110(1)
Survival
111(1)
April Wind
112(1)
I Have Had Enough of Glamour
113(1)
A Woman's Song
114(1)
Choice
115(1)
Gifts
116(1)
Imprisoned
117(1)
The Confidante
118(1)
Mid-Western
119(1)
Tropic Rain
120(1)
A Song of Dreams Come True
121(1)
The Seeker
122(3)
Verse Translation
Running Water
Alfonsina Storni; Argentina, 1892-1938
125(1)
You Say I Forget You, Celio
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz; Mexico, 1651-95
126(1)
The Rose
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
127(1)
Love
Jaime Torres Bodet; Mexico, 1902-74
128(2)
Proletarians
Luis Muñoz Marini Puerto Rico, 1898-1980
130(1)
Pamphlet
Luis Muñoz Marin
131(1)
Brother Dog
Luis Anibal Sánchez; Ecuador, 1902-22
132(1)
Horses of the Conquistadores
José Santos Chocano; Peru, 1875-1934
133(3)
Nameless Islands
Jorge Carrera Andrade, Ecuador, 1902-78
136(2)
Sunday
Jorge Carrera Andrade
138(1)
The Guest
Jorge Carrera Andrade
139(1)
Vocation of the Mirror
Jorge Carrera Andrade
140(1)
Place of Origin
Jorge Carrera Andrade
141(1)
Nameless District
Jorge Carrera Andrade
142(1)
Biography for the Use of the Birds
Jorge Carrera Andrade
143(2)
On Someone's Death
Eugenio Florit; Cuba, 1903-99
145(1)
Mob of Mountains
José Varallanos; Peru, 1907-97
146(1)
Andean Crossing
Alejandro Peralta; Peru, 1899-1973
147(2)
Provincial Moment
Asdrúbal Villalobos; Costa Rica, 1893-1985
149(1)
Elegy to the Invented Woman
Xavier Abril; Peru, 1905-90
150(1)
Vision of Moth-Eaten Pianos Falling to Pieces
César Moro, Peru, 1903-56
151(1)
The Illustrated World
César Moro
152(1)
Parable of Generosity
Antonio Spinetti Dini; Venezuela, 1900-41
153(2)
Man's Road
Enrique Peña Barrenechea; Peru, 1905-88
155(1)
Dregs
César Vallejo; Peru, 1892-1938
156(1)
Aboriginal Mother
Angelina Acuña; Guatemala, 1905-
157
Prose
Poetry Every Day
161(4)
Contemporary Spanish American Poetry
165(11)
A Charming Mexican Lady
176(7)
Brother of Poe
183(7)
Pan-American Women
190(3)
In Behalf of the Equal Rights Treaty
193(2)
Paulina Luisi, Internationalist
195(2)
Harriet Monroe: Poet and Pioneer
197(3)
Notes from a Feminist's Travel Diary
200(3)
Puerto Rican Women Writers: The Record of One Hundred Years
203(5)
Cuban Literature
208(8)
Cultural Interchanges between the Americas
216(6)
The Inter-American Commission of Women: A New International Venture
222(8)
Jose de San Martin
230(4)
Juan de Castellanos in the Perspective of 350 Years
234(10)
Two Seventeenth-Century Pen-Women: Anne Bradstreet of Massachusetts and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz of Mexico
244(6)
Flowering in a Phrase
250(2)
Eugenio Maria de Hostos: After One Hundred Years
252(4)
Birds, Beasts, and Flowers, and Indians
256(3)
Translating the Untranslatable: Can Poetry Stand the Change?
259(7)
Governments Invest in Culture
266(9)
Appendix A: Letter from Muna Lee (1915) 275(1)
Appendix B: Letter from Gloria Muñoz Arjona (1965) 276(1)
Appendix C: Letter from Frances Klafter née Lee (2000) 277(1)
Bibliography 278(13)
Acknowledgments 291(2)
Index 293

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