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    The Thin Red Line
    The Thin Red Line
    The Thin Red Line
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    The Thin Red Line

    By Gemma García-San Román

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    The poems of The thin red line account for a state of broken perception after my own personal beliefs tumbled, turning the path that I walked into one of virtual reality. The fragility of this condition is equal to the uncertainty of walking over a thin layer of ice, not knowing if our steps will support us safely. This borderline experience enabled me to visualize a negative world, a point of darkness that is like situating oneself on scaffolding, bordering the limits of the building where language and reality converge.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateSep 30, 2014
    ISBN9781499075700
    The Thin Red Line
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    Gemma García-San Román

    Gemma Garcia-San Roman was born in Madrid, Spain (1975). She graduated in Spanish Language and Literature from Universidad Complutense (Madrid), and earned an MA and Doctorate at University of Calgary, Alberta, specializing in Modern and Contemporary Latin American Poetry. She has published articles on the poetry of Jaime Siles, Gonzalo Rojas and Juan Gelman in Revista Aerea and Fragmenta, and has collaborated in the edition and publication of a 16th Century Spanish poetry collection. She works as Spanish Instructor in Calgary. The thin red line is her first collection of poems in print.

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