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Chilean-American poet, novelist, essayist and human rights activist Marjorie Agosín, pays homage to her great grandmother, Helena Broder, who escaped Austria shortly after the Night of the Broken Glass in 1938, in a compelling series of poems paired with photographs by Chilean photographer Samuel Shats, in a journey across time and space and across thresholds between life, death and dreams to discover Helena’s lost voice.
Samuel Shats, PhD: is a Chilean Photographer. His work has been shown in collective and individual exhibits in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, USA and Israel, and has been published in books and magazines. He has received grants and prizes. He is currently working with Marjorie Agosin in projects related to memory and identity.
Majorie Agosín: is the Andrew Mellon Professor in the humanities at Wellesley College where she teaches courses on Creative Writing and the Literature of Human Rights in the Americas. She is an internationally known author and has written poetry, essays, novels and memoirs. A winner of important literary prizes such as the Pura Belpre award and the Jasper Whiting traveling fellowship, and the United Nations Leadership Award for Human Rights. Agosín lives in between places the coast of Maine and the Coast of Chile and her work is mostly written in Spanish.
