Product Description: From her early childhood in the Dominican Republic, Rhina Espaillat learned the pleasures of traditional lyric poetry with wordplay, repetition, and patterns of sounds that allow for interplay between sound and sense. In this engaging and sensitive collection of poetry, she illuminates what is universal in women's lives and draws our attention to the humanly touching experiences...read more

Product Description: Playing at Stillness displays her range—from exquisitely executed formal verse to wonderfully fluid and appealing free verse poems. Humorous and playful, astute and poignant, she never gets in her way—her craft does all the work and we delight in the results...read more

Product Description: Rhina P. Espaillat's The Shadow I Dress In is the winner of the 2003 Stanzas Prize. Espaillat has emerged, late in her life, as a poet of sublime formal skill and an increasingly wide readership. She ranges widely in her tones, from colloquial to neoclassical, but always--seemingly without effort--finds the perfect balance between mind and music...read more

Product Description: Rehearsing Absence by Rhina P. Espaillat, recipient of the 2001 Richard Wilbur Award, is a remarkable collection of meticulously-crafted poems that take the seemingly everyday world and imbue it with startling resonance and profundity...read more

Product Description: Mundo Y Palabra/the World and the Word (Spanish Edition) (Spanish) Paperback - December, 2001 by Rhina P. Espaillat

Product Description: This gathering of four women poets is amazingly fine according to Dana Gioia. Each woman poet is accomplished, individual, yet is copasetic with each and every poet in this book. The vastly underated Rhina Espaillat demonstrates once again that she is one of America's pre-eminent Latin voices...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A collection of unforgettable poems, 'Where Horizons Go' is as compelling as it is technically stunning. The book bridges the sometimes vast distances between the personal and the impersonal, the transitory and the permanent, the imagined and the real, the internal and the external, the self and the other...read more

Product Description: A collection of unforgettable poems, 'Where Horizons Go' is as compelling as it is technically stunning. The book bridges the sometimes vast distances between the personal and the impersonal, the transitory and the permanent, the imagined and the real, the internal and the external, the self and the other...read more

Product Description: Book by Espaillat, Rhina P.