Spanish & Portuguese Professor Ana Merino publishes new book

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Los Buenos Propósitos book cover
Los Buenos Propósitos book cover

University of Iowa Professor Ana Merino has published a new book, Los Buenos Propósitos (Visor Libros).

From the Visor Libros website:

"Con una intención tan literaria como irónica Ana Merino ha titulado a este libro Los buenos propósitos. Estos poemas celebran el vuelo libre de la imaginación a la vez que indagan con ternura en las contradicciones de la existencia humana. Hay en esta poesía un recorrido vital que va desde la desesperación y la angustia hasta la plenitud y la luz. Su original voz ahonda en su capacidad para crear un orden poético, una fortaleza rítmica donde las sombras de la vida consumada renacen en la alquimia de unos versos que nunca dejan de sorprendernos."

Ana Merino is an associate professor of creative writing in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese, part of the Division of World Languages, Literatures & Cultures within the UI College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. She has published seven books of poetry, a youth novel, a scholarly book on comics, and numerous articles and essays.

The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences offers about 70 majors across the humanities; fine, performing and literary arts; natural and mathematical sciences; social and behavioral sciences; and communication disciplines. About 15,000 undergraduate and nearly 2,000 graduate students study each year in the college’s 37 departments, led by faculty at the forefront of teaching and research in their disciplines. The college teaches all Iowa undergraduates through the college's general education program, CLAS CORE. About 80 percent of all Iowa undergraduates begin their academic journey in CLAS. The college confers about 60 percent of the university's bachelor's degrees each academic year.