A Pan-American Life: Selected Poetry and Prose of Muna Lee Book

	Foreword
	This extraordinary woman	3
	From Mississippi to Oklahoma	3
	Starting out as a poet	6
	In the world of New York	12
	Publishing her Sea-change	16
	In the Pan-American literary tradition	19
	Speaking out for Pan-American women	25
	With the world on her back	30
	Doing for others and for herself	32
	Working for Pan-American union	42
	Translating Ecuador's premier poet	46
	Doing The American story	49
	Getting Faulkner to travel	59
	In the end	66
	Rich port	77
	Of writing verse	78
	Planet	79
	Hacienda	80
	Dies Irae	81
	Moonrise	82
	On going ashore	83
	Acacia Island	84
	Night of San Juan	85
	Atavian	86
	Caribbean marsh	87
	Visitant	88
	Deliverance	89
	Carib garden	90
	Stalactite	91
	Deserted orchard	92
	Albatross	93
	Wayfarer	94
	Summertime notation in a troubled world	95
	Apology for all that blooms in time of crisis	96
	Nightpiece	97
	By the Caribbean one remembers the prairie	98
	Mushroom town	99
	The thought of you	108
	The stars are colored blossoms	109
	Lips you were not anhungered for	110
	Survival	111
	April wind	112
	I have had enough of glamour	113
	A woman's song	114
	Choice	115
	Gifts	116
	Imprisoned	117
	The confidante	118
	Mid-western	119
	Tropic rain	120
	A song of dreams come true	121
	The seeker	122
	Running water (Alfonsina Storni, Argentina, 1892-1938)	125
	You say I forget you, Celio (Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz; Mexico, 1651-95)	126
	The rose (Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz)	127
	Love (Jaime Torres Bodet; Mexico, 1902-74)	128
	Proletarians (Luis Munoz Marin; Puerto Rico, 1898-1980)	130
	Pamphlet (Luis Munoz Marin)	131
	Brother dog (Luis Anibal Sanchez; Ecuador, 1902-22)	132
	Horses of the conquistadores (Jose Santos Chocano; Peru, 1875-1934)	133
	Nameless islands (Jorge Carrera Andrade; Ecuador, 1902-78)	136
	Sunday (Jorge Carrera Andrade)	138
	The guest (Jorge Carrera Andrade)	139
	Vocation of the mirror (Jorge Carrera Andrade)	140
	Place of origin (Jorge Carrera Andrade)	141
	Nameless district (Jorge Carrera Andrade)	142
	Biography for the use of the birds (Jorge Carrera Andrade)	143
	On someone's death (Eugenio Florit; Cuba, 1903-99)	145
	Mob of mountains (Jose Varallanos; Peru, 1907-97)	146
	Andean crossing (Alejandro Peralta; Peru, 1899-1973)	147
	Provincial moment (Asdrubal Villalobos; Costa Rica, 1893-1985)	149
	Elegy to the invented woman (Xavier Abril; Peru, 1905-90)	150
	Vision of moth-eaten pianos falling to pieces (Cesar Moro; Peru, 1903-56)	151
	The illustrated world (Cesar Moro)	152
	Parable of generosity (Antonio Spinetti Dini; Venezuela, 1900-41)	153
	Man's road (Enrique Pena Barrenechea; Peru, 1905-88)	155
	Dregs (Cesar Vallejo; Peru, 1892-1938)	156
	Aboriginal mother (Angelina Acuna; Guatemala, 1905-)	157
	Poetry every day	161
	Contemporary Spanish American poetry	165
	A charming Mexican lady	176
	Brother of Poe	183
	Pan-American women	190
	In behalf of the equal rights treaty	193
	Paulina Luisi, internationalist	195
	Harriet Monroe : poet and pioneer	197
	Notes from a feminist's travel diary	200
	Puerto Rican women writers : the record of one hundred years	203
	Cuban literature	208
	Cultural interchanges between the Americas	216
	The inter-American commission of women : a new international venture	222
	Jose de San Martin	230
	Juan de Castellanos in the perspective of 350 years	234
	Two seventeenth-century pen-women : Anne Bradstreet of Massachusetts and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz of Mexico	244
	Flowering in a phrase	250
	Eugenio Maria de Hostos : after one hundred years	252
	Birds, beasts, and flowers, and Indians	256
	Translating the untranslatable : can poetry stand the change?	259
	Governments invest in culture	266
App. A	Letter from Muna Lee (1915)	275
App. B	Letter from Gloria Munoz Arjona (1965)	276
App. C	Letter from Frances Klafter nee Lee (2000)	277