Gather This Voice: A Reading In Honor of the Stories and Lives of Torture VictimsCenter for the Victims of Torture The work of the Center for Victims of Torture (CVT) will be celebrated in a publication reading of The Selected Poems of Miguel Hernandez (University of Chicago Press) at: Open Book, Dayton Performance Hall, Co-sponsored by CVT and Ruminator Books Featured readers include Robert Bly, Ray Gonzalez, Michael Dennis Browne, and Timothy Baland, along with the book's editor and translator, Ted Genoways, and CVT's Director of Client Services, Rosa Garcia-Peltoniemi. Editor Ted Genoways offered the publication reading as an opportunity to celebrate the work of the Center, because the life of Hernandez is strongly linked to the lives and stories of the CVT's clients. As a victim of political torture, Hernandez transformed his experiences of imprisonment and suffering into passionate and powerful poetry that bears witness to the strength of the human spirit. Sentenced to death by Franco for the crime of being a "poet and soldier of the mother country," Miguel Hernandez's voice was silenced at the age of 32. Though most of his work was kept out of print by Spain's totalitarian regime, his reputation grew, and today he is recognized in the Spanish-speaking world as one of the most important poets of the twentieth century. The Selected Poems of Miguel Hernandez represents the most comprehensive bilingual collection of Hernandez's work, and has been widely praised as "the most accurate, acutely translated, and generous selection" (Edward Hirsch) and "an immense gift" (Robert Bly). Please join CVT and Ruminator Books in celebrating the life and work of Miguel Hernandez, as well as the work of CVT, whose clients daily restore the "dignity of the human spirit."
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