Duel de lenguaje/Language Duel

"English and Spanish have been at war since Queen Elisabeth sank King Felipe''s Spanish Armada in 1588," Rosario Ferré writes in the title poem of Language Duel; "Language carries with it all their fire and power." Ferré explores this tension throughout this explosive collection, which plays with the sensual differences between the languages and lays bare many of the complications facing an increa...