Moisés
- Moisés
Mi padre hablóMuchos idiomasPero siempre dudóDe las geografías y las palabras prestadas.Se enamoró de las sílabas del silencioDe la alquimia radiante de los elementos.Tuvo siempre que ser de otro lugarAprender idiomas extranjerosSer expulsado de pueblos y paísesPero siempre tuvo fe en sus orígenesDe niño nómade y descalzo.Por eso lo llamaron MoisésSalvado de todas las irasPríncipe de los justos y los solos. [End Page 88]
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.
