What You Have Heard Is True

Description:

Describes the author's deep friendship with a mysterious intellectual who introduced her to the culture and people of El Salvador in the 1970s, a tumultuous period in the country's history, inspiring her work as an unlikely activist.

subjects: New York Times reviewed,  Poets, biography,  El salvador, history,  Political activists,  Biography,  History,  Resistance to Government,  American Poets,  BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY,  Women