Dentro de mí
- Dentro de mí
Dentro de míAsí cerquitaEn la tibiezaDe la vidaTe tengoDentro de míCorazónEntre las arterias más traviesasTe acomodoTe acurruco para que el sueñoDe la muerte también te sea dulce.
Por fin te encontré un lugarNo sólo en los páramos de la memoriaNi en una lágrimaTe he acomodado junto a mi corazónMe escuchas reposadoCuando te importuno con un relatoMenor [End Page 78]
Marjorie Agosín grew up in Santiago Chile hearing the stories of her family who escaped the Holocaust as well as the pogroms. Agosín has documented her family's lives in two memoirs A Cross and a Star and Always from Somewhere Else. She is the author of Among the Angels of Memory, a collection of poetry dedicated to her great grandmother. The author of nearly twenty books as well as the recipient of important literary and Human Rights awards, Agosín is a professor of Spanish at Wellelsey College where she teaches courses on the literature of Latin American Jewish women and on human rights.
