A Cross and a Star: Memoirs of a Jewish Girl in Chile

Marjorie Agosín

1995

Bread1

Very early in the morning we went to pick up fresh bread at Doña Blanquita’s. However, before arriving at her house that resembled the generosity of her hands and clay ovens, we had to cross a vast meadow where the sky confused itself with the sea and where the noise of emaciated dogs traveling in small packs and dark and shallow pools…

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Marjorie Agosín

b. 1955

Marjorie Agosín is a poet, writer, human rights activist, and professor. Born in Maryland, she was raised in Chile, and in the early 1970s moved back to the United States to escape Chile’s military coup. She earned a doctorate at Indiana University in 1982 and teaches Spanish language and Latin American literature at Wellesley College. Agosín won the Letras de Oro Prize for poetry and the Good Neighbor Award, both in 1995.

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