![]() ![]() ![]() Gómez convinced Forché that she needed to see what was happening for herself, and off she went to a nation on the brink. At the beginning of the narrative, the author recounts how she opened her door one day to a man whom Alegría had mentioned without much specificity: Leonel Gómez, a mysterious figure who sometimes seemed to be all things to all people. “What I knew of El Salvador, I knew from my Spanish professor in college, himself a Salvadoran,” as well as from translating the work of the poet Claribel Alegría. Blue Hour, 2003, etc.) admits she had only a little knowledge of the Central American nation of El Salvador until the end of the 1970s. A noted poet and activist recounts an odd season at the dawn of the civil war in El Salvador.Īt the opening, Forché (English/Georgetown Univ. ![]()
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