The Difficult Days (The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation, 64)

Roberto Sosa was born in Honduras in 1930. Expressing the oppression and poverty of his country, the poems in The Difficult Days are from Un Mutido Para Todos Dividido and Los Pobres, which won the Adonais Prize for Poetry in Madrid in 1968. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. 'Roberto Sosa's poems, like 'the sound of gunfire / can go straight to the heart / of our intimacy.' These are lyric testimonies of political terror and personal grief, often mysteriously fused, as in the eloquent elegy to his father. Never pamphletary, this work perhaps even realizes that poet's own hope--a poetry which might help 'civilize those who govern.' -- Carolyn Forche