Adela Zamudio: Selected Poetry & Prose: Translated from the Spanish by Lynette Yetter

by Adela Zamudio, Lynette Yetter (Translator), Virginia Ayllón (Prologue by)

Overview

Finalist for the 2023 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, Adela Zamudio: Selected Poetry & Prose is the first book in English showcasing the life and writings of Bolivia's most celebrated writer and educator, Adela Zamudio (1854-1928). Zamudio's birthday is a national holiday in Bolivia. Self-taught, Zamudio was the mother of feminism and women's education in Bolivia, and was active for Indigenous People's rights. The President of Bolivia crowned her with gold laurel leaves in honor of her cultural contributions. Adela Zamudio: Selected Poetry & Prose, translated from the Spanish by Lynette Yetter, presents a bilingual overview of Zamudio's work, much of which was previously untranslated. Several chapters, including the prologue by Bolivian Zamudio scholar Virginia Ayllón, outline Zamudio's biography and the cultural context in which she wrote. Adela Zamudio's celebration of lesbian love and her ironic cultural critiques continue to resonate today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780984375684
Publisher:	Fuente Fountain Books
Publication date:	08/16/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	738 KB

About the Author

Adela Zamudio (1854-1928) is the most celebrated writer of Bolivia, where her birthday is a national holiday. Self- educated, she was the mother of feminism and women's education in Bolivia. She was an activist for women's right to vote, women's right to divorce, and for indigenous rights. Her Quechua-language literacy projects are credited with contributing to the success of indigenous uprisings.
Lynette Yetter is a Pushcart Prize nominated poet who first encountered a bust of Adela Zamudio in a park bearing her name in La Paz, Bolivia. Curious to learn more, since so few women are honored with monuments, Yetter read everything she could find by and about Adela Zamudio, culminating in a summa cum laude Reed College Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) thesis, and this book. Lynette Yetter is a panpipe-playing Buddhist lesbian artist who shares her time between La Paz, Bolivia and the unceded indigenous territory temporarily called Portland, Oregón. www.LynetteYetter.com
Poet, speaker, professor, cultural promoter and literary critic. Her most celebrated works are about Bolivian women writers: Adela Zamudio, Lindaura Anzoátegui, Hilda Mundy, Yolanda Bedregal and others.

Table of Contents

In Praise of Adela Zamudio: Selected Poetry and Prose translated from the Spanish by Lynette Yetter -- Introduction by Virginia Ayllón -- Preface by Lynette Yetter -- How this book is arranged -- Translator's -- Introduction -- Yesterday Afternoonv -- To a Suicide -- The Violet -- Springtime -- To a Seagull (A Song) -- To a Tree -- Masquerade -- Born a Man -- Progress -- Pilgrimage -- Clouds and Wind -- Poet -- Fragment -- Whither Goest Thou? -- End of the Century -- Iron Crazy Woman -- Keynote Speech by Adela Zamudio, for the Poetic Olympics -- Yesterday's Meeting -- Afterword by Lynette Yetter -- Acknowledgments -- En alabanza a Adela Zamudio: poesías y prosa seleccionadas traducido del español por Lynette Yetter -- Prólogo por Virginia Ayllón -- Prefacio por Lynette Yetter -- Cómo está organizado este libro -- Introducción de la traductora -- Ayer en la tarde -- A un suicida -- La violeta -- Primavera -- A una golondrina (Canción) -- A un árbol -- Baile de máscaras -- Nacer hombre -- Progreso -- Peregrinando -- Nubes y vientos -- Poeta -- Fragmento -- Quo vadis? -- Fin de siglo -- Loca de hierro -- Discurso de Adela Zamudio, Mantenedora de los Juegos Florales -- La reunión de ayer -- Epílogo por Lynette Yetter -- Agradecimientos