The Angel of Memory

Marjorie Agosín 's poems describe her journey to Prague and Vienna in search of memories of her grandmother, Helena Broder, a Jewish survivor of the Central European Holocaust. Novelist and poet Demetria Martinez called Agosín "a mystic poet whose clarity of vision is superceded only by her courage. 'The Angel of Memory' is Agosín's most ambitious and perhaps her best book to date. With beauty and truth as her guideposts, she explores as few others have the twentieth century's most horrific landscape: the injustice, racism, and cruelty of the Holocaust and its aftermath. " Praise for other the author's other works comes from such luminaries as Isabel Allende, who said "Agosín's poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile" and Elena Poniatowska, who claims that "Marjorie Agosín's muses have first names and last names and they inhabit with their brilliance the poetry of this Chilean-American writer." Liv Ullmann wrote that: "Her poetry vibrates with electricity and compassion for those who cannot speak for themselves. She captures the soul of the lost and helpless. "