SOURCE: "An Interview with Claribel Alegría," in Index on Censorship, Vol. 13, No. 2, April, 1984, pp. 11-13.
In the following essay, Alegría discusses her childhood, the pressures of living in exile, and the difficulty of translating poetry.
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