The White Islands/Las Islas Blancas (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780983322092)

"I only wanted to write about them, / Narrate their fierce audacity, / Their voyages through the channels of the Mediterranean." So begins a poetic journey through the islands of the Mediterranean that served as homes and refuge for the Sephardic Jews after the Alhambra Decree, which ordered their expulsion from Spain. Inspired by her own journey to Salonika and the Greek Islands, Rhodes, Crete, as well as the Balkans, Marjorie Agos n searches for the remnants of the Sepharad.

Presented in a beautiful bilingual Spanish-English edition, Agos n's poems speak to a wandering life of exile on distant shores. We hear the rhythm of the waves and the Ladino-inflected voices of Sephardi women past and present: Paloma, Estrella, and Luna in the fullness of their lives, loves, dreams, and faith. An evocative and sensual voyage to communities mostly lost after the Holocaust, The White Islands offers a lighthouse of remembrance, a lyrical world recovered with language and song, lament and joy, longing and hope.

Author: Marjorie Agos?
ISBN-10: 0983322090
ISBN-13: 9780983322092
Publisher: Swan Isle Press
Language: English
Published: 08/15/2016
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d