Issue #16.2: Central American Writing

Contents:

• Leonel Rugama / “I am René Espronceda de la Barca”
• Carmen Naranjo / “Ondina”
• Margaret Randall / “From Sandino’s Daughters”
• Arturo Ambrogi / “The Village”
• Claribel Alegria / “The Last 48 Hours: 15-17 July 1979”
• Victor Montejo / “The World Needs You”
• Margaret Randall / “Talking with Ernesto Cardenal”
• Leonel Rugama / “Six Poems”
• Benjamin Ramón / “Two Fictions”
• Alejandro Bravo / “Two Short Stories”
• Octavio Armand / “Birth Certificates as Fiction”
• Patricia Eakins / “Death in My Country”
• Argueles Morales / “Over the Walls”
• Manlio Argüeta / “Little Red Riding Hood in the Red Zone”
• Blase Bonpane / “Liberation Theology: Guatemala”
• Arturo Arias / “Guatemala 1954—Funeral for a Bird”
• Mario Benedetti / “An Hour with Roque Dalton”
• Lisa Shipley / “Mortar”
• Roque Dalton / “Miguel Mármol”
• Victor Perera / “Kindergarten”
• Claribel Alegría and D.J. Flakoll / “They’ll Never Take Me Alive: The Salvadoran Woman in the Revolution”
• Harold Jaffe / “Mussel”

Reviews:

• Five Books on Guatemala / reviewed by Jean Franco
• Nicaragua in Revolution and Nicaragua Under Siege / reviewed by Dianne Walta Hart
• Class Poetry: Five Books from Curbstone Press / reviewed by Dale Jacobson
• Magic Realism in Nicaragua: Sergio Ramírez / reviewed by Prescott Nichols
• Reelpolitik: Invention and Intervention in Three U.S. Films on Central America / reviewed by Julianne Burton

Art:

• Central American Revolutionary Posters
• Four Photographs by Mel Rosenthal
• Five Cuban Photographs
• Photographs by Janet Delaney, Margaret Randall, and Susan Meiselas
• Cover: Nicaraguan revolutionary poster
• Cover: “Esperanza and Chenaro” from the series En el Liceo, by Marucha (Maria Eugenia Haya), Havana, 1980