On the impulse behind Cartographies, Marjorie Agosin writes, ""I
have always wanted to understand the meaning of displacement and
the quest or longing for home. In these lyrical meditations in
prose and poetry, Agosin evokes the many places on four continents
she has visited or called home. Recording personal and spiritual
voyages, the author opens herself to follow the ambiguous, secret
map of her memory, which ""does not betray."" Agosin's journey
begins in Chile, where, before her family left in the early days of
the Pinocher dictatorship, she had spent her childhood. Of Santiago
Agosin writes, ""Day and night I think about my city. I dream the
dream of all exiles."" Agosin also travels to Prague and Vienna,
ancestral homes of her grandparents, and to Valparaiso in Chile,
which received them as immigrants. Kneeling among the yellow mounds
at the Terezin concentration camp, where twenty-two of her
relatives died, Agosin places ""small stones, shrubs, the stuff of
life on graves I did not recognize."" And then on through the
Middle East, the Mediterranean, Europe, and the
Americas...Everywhere, she is drawn to women in whose devotion and
creativity she sees a deep vein of hope.
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