Gioconda Belli
From Eve's Rib.
Willimantic, Connecticut: Curbstone Press, 1989. Author-signed second edition. 1880684136 121 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.75", displays very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright.
Inscription on first blank preliminary page reads: "Para Ma. Cristina: / Ha sido muy lindo compartir / estos dias contigo / Con un gran abrazo / Belli / Oct / 94."
Poetry collection by Nicaraguan novelist and poet Gioconda Belli (b. 1948), who was most recently awarded the 2019 "Oxfam Novib/PEN Award". "Gioconda Belli's poetry, widely published and revered in Latin America and Europe, celebrates the longing for a society in which humanity constructs its future, animated by an inextinguishable erotic, maternal, and transcentendly loving desire. As Salman Rushdie wrote in his book, "The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey," her poetry is a "kind of public love poetry that comes clower, to expressing the passion of Nicaragua than anything I [have] yet heard.""