With a Star in My Hand: Ruben Dario, Poetry Hero

Margarita Engle

With a Star in My Hand: Ruben Dario, Poetry Hero
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Country
United States
Published
1 May 2021
Pages
176
ISBN
9781534424944

With a Star in My Hand: Ruben Dario, Poetry Hero

Margarita Engle

Exceptional. -Booklist (starred review)

Heartfelt…Thoughtful and effective. -The Horn Book

Engle’s lyrical poetry emotionally conveys the reality of being a greatly gifted, passionate, and deeply ambitious young man in a turbulent time. -BCCB

From acclaimed author Margarita Engle comes a gorgeous novel in verse about Ruben Dario, the Nicaraguan poet and folk hero who initiated the literary movement of Modernismo.

As a little boy, Ruben Dario loved to listen to his great uncle, a man who told tall tales in a booming, larger-than-life voice. Ruben quickly learned the magic of storytelling, and discovered the rapture and beauty of verse.

A restless and romantic soul, Ruben traveled across Central and South America seeking adventure and connection. As he discovered new places and new loves, he wrote poems to express his wild storm of feelings. But the traditional forms felt too restrictive. He began to improvise his own poetic forms so he could capture the entire world in his words. At the age of twenty-one, he published his first book Azul, which heralded a vibrant new literary movement called Modernismo that blended poetry and prose into something magical.

In gorgeous poems of her own, Margarita Engle tells the story of this passionate young man who revolutionized world literature.

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