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"In this evocative and emotional work, the poet, novelist, and human rights activist Marjorie Agosin pays homage to her great-grandmother, Helena Broder. As a young woman, Helena escaped Vienna to seek refuge in Chile, leaving shortly after the Night of Broken Glass in 1938 when the Nazi regime unleashed a campaign of violence, terror and destruction against the Jewish population. This book takes readers on Marjorie's journey through time and space, and across thresholds between life, death and dreams, to discover Helena's lost voice. This is not a linear journey, but one that braids together the past, the present, and the future, allowing Marjorie to give Helena, an exiled woman, a third home in the liminal space of memory and literature; a safe haven where she can be complete rather than fragmented, a place where her ""exhausted suitcase"" can finally rest. This touching collection of poems, in Marjorie Agosin's native Spanish together with Alison Ridley's delicate English translation, is accompanied by evocative images from the Chilean photographer Samuel Shats, as well as poignant memorabilia of Helena herself."

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"Marjorie Agosin has been teaching at Wellesley College for more than thirty years. Apart from being an academic, she is also a poet, a novelist, and a human rights activist. Considered one of the most prolific and versatile writers in the Americas, she has been recognized by the United Nations with the Human Rights Leadership Award, and by the Chilean government with the Gabriela Mistral prize. She is also a poet laureate for the Harvard Refugee Trauma Program. She is the author of more than fifty books that include narrative poetry, theatre and memoirs. Among her most renowned books are ""I Lived on Butterfly Hill"", winner of the Pura Belpre Prize, and her most recent collection of poetry, ""Las Islas Blancas (The White Islands)"". Agosin divides her time between Concon Chile, Wellesley Massachusetts, and the coast of Maine. PhD Tel-Aviv University, is a photographer living and working in Santiago, Chile. His work has been shown in group and individual exhibits in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, USA and Israel. As part of the Salto collective, he received the City Award 2010 for ""La Victoria of Everyone."" He was also awarded the Fondart 2015 (National Grant for the Arts) for his work, ""On the Threshold of Oblivion."" He is currently working on projects related to memory and identity. Alison Ridley teaches Spanish at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. She received her doctorate from Michigan State University. She wrote her dissertation on silence in the Spanish picaresque novel, but her current scholarly research focuses on the theatre of Antonio Buero Vallejo. She has published articles and book reviews in various academic journals, and translations in three books edited by Marjorie Agosín."

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