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Swan Isle Press

The Men Who Killed My Mother | Los hombres que mataron a mi madrePoetry | Poesa\nAuthor(s): Fernando Valverde, Gordon E. McNeer\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Swan Isle Press, United States\nImprint: Swan Isle Press\nISBN-13: 9781961056091, 978-1961056091\nSynopsis\nA powerful account of the symbolic murder of the poets mother.\n\n From the first poem in this bilingual edition of The Men Who Killed My Mother, it is evident that the mother in Our Mother (Nuestra Madre) is not only Fernando Valverdes. The soulful refrain of mother/madre might be anyones mother whose suffering is palpable in a world legislated over by men. Issues such as orphanhood, abuse, violence, manipulation, and fear are treated with the rawness of someone who has tasted the venom of betrayal. This is a lyrical dark garden of faith and family, exposing treachery and cruelty, and anger at injustice, from the voice of a son with deep love for his motherfor her honor, dignity, and dreams.\n\n Valverde leads us into a .