The Light of Desire: La Luz del Deseo [Spanish]

by Marjorie Agosín

Marjorie Agos n's intensely personal long poem The Light of Desire is both a secular and sacred meditation on love and its meanings in the land of Israel. Following the tradition of the Song of Songs and the secular poetry of Sepharad, the beloved in The Light of Desire is both physical and metaphorical. The lovers' bodies are the paths, the geography, leading not only from desire to sensual pleasure, but to memory and illumination...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN: 0974888176
• ISBN13: 9780974888170
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Swan Isle Press
• Length: 85 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"