From Eve's Rib
Author: Gioconda Belli
Desc: 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 closer to expressing the passion of Nicaragua than anything I [have] yet heard."