The Poet Marjorie Agosín: A Poet of Land, Home, and Dream
Session
Language and Culture
Description
This paper explores the poetic landscapes of Marjorie Agosín, focusing on her recurring themes of land, home, and dream as spaces of memory, belonging, and imagination. Agosín’s poetry reflects the tension between exile and rootedness, tracing the emotional geography of displacement and the continuous search for home. Through her evocative language and symbolic imagery, she transforms land into a site of both loss and recovery, and home into a metaphor for identity, origin, and return. Agosín’s poetry function as bridges between the visible and the invisible, between history and hope. They sustain the poet’s vision of a world where memory inhabits the earth and where the past is not forgotten but reimagined. The paper argues that Agosín’s art invites readers to inhabit language as a homeland of its own — a place where the boundaries between self, landscape, and imagination dissolve. Ultimately, her poetry reveals how the notions of land, home, and dream coexist as interwoven dimensions of human experience, offering a lyrical meditation on belonging and the endurance of memory.
Keywords:
poetic landscapes, imagery, evocative language, human experience
Proceedings Editor
Edmond Hajrizi
ISBN
978-9951-982-41-2
Location
UBT Lipjan, Kosovo
Start Date
25-10-2025 9:00 AM
End Date
26-10-2025 6:00 PM
DOI
10.33107/ubt-ic.2025.264
Recommended Citation
Bashota, Halil, "The Poet Marjorie Agosín: A Poet of Land, Home, and Dream" (2025). UBT International Conference. 3.
https://knowledgecenter.ubt-uni.net/conference/2025UBTIC/LC/3
The Poet Marjorie Agosín: A Poet of Land, Home, and Dream
UBT Lipjan, Kosovo
This paper explores the poetic landscapes of Marjorie Agosín, focusing on her recurring themes of land, home, and dream as spaces of memory, belonging, and imagination. Agosín’s poetry reflects the tension between exile and rootedness, tracing the emotional geography of displacement and the continuous search for home. Through her evocative language and symbolic imagery, she transforms land into a site of both loss and recovery, and home into a metaphor for identity, origin, and return. Agosín’s poetry function as bridges between the visible and the invisible, between history and hope. They sustain the poet’s vision of a world where memory inhabits the earth and where the past is not forgotten but reimagined. The paper argues that Agosín’s art invites readers to inhabit language as a homeland of its own — a place where the boundaries between self, landscape, and imagination dissolve. Ultimately, her poetry reveals how the notions of land, home, and dream coexist as interwoven dimensions of human experience, offering a lyrical meditation on belonging and the endurance of memory.