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Article: A note on Maria Elena Cruz Varela. (poet)
- Article from:
- The American Poetry Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 1995
- Author:
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... says only; this is a picture of all life, and from it learn the meaning of your life. And conversely, read only your life and understand from it the hieroglyphics of universal life.
- Nietzsche
The first night I stayed in Maria Elena's house in Havana, she told me in vivid detail an account of November 21, 1991. Her friends were used by the Brigadas de Accion in order to make Maria Elena open her door, and when she did, she was pushed, face first, into the wall, her arms pinned behind her. Her intruders dragged her down the stairs and into the street. In public view, the Brigadas de Accion tried to force her to eat the manifesto she had written, signed and ...