Tag: Margarita Engle

I was sent a copy of Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal by Margarita Engle   Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal by Margarita Engle Release Date: 2016-03-29 In 1914, the world celebrated the opening of the Panama Canal, which connected the world’s two largest oceans and signaled America’s emergence as a global superpower. It was a miracle, this path of water where a mountain had stood—and creating a miracle is no easy thing. Thousands lost their lives, and those who survived worked under the harshest conditions for…

I was sent a copy of The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba’s Greatest Abolitionist by Margarita Engle   The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba’s Greatest Abolitionist by Margarita Engle Release Date: 2015-09-15 “I find it so easy to forget / that I’m just a girl who is expected / to live / without thoughts.” Opposing slavery in Cuba in the nineteenth century was dangerous. The most daring abolitionists were poets who veiled their work in metaphor. Of these, the boldest was Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, nicknamed Tula. In passionate, accessible verses of her own,…