{"product_id":"female-improvisational-poets-challenges-and-achievements-in-the-twentieth-century-paperback","title":"Female Improvisational Poets: Challenges and Achievements in the Twentieth Century - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eIrujo Xabier\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eArrieta Inaki\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn December 2009, 14,500 people met at the Bilbao Exhibition Centre in the Basque Country to attend an improvised poetry contest. Forty-four poets took part in the 2009 literary tournament, and eight of them made it to the final. After a long day of literary competition, Maialen Lujanbio won and received the award: a big black \u003cem\u003etxapela\u003c\/em\u003eor Basque beret.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat day the Basques achieved a triple triumph. First, thousands of people had gathered for an entire day to follow a literary contest, and many more had attended the event via the web all over the world. Second, all these people had followed this event entirely in Basque, a language that had been prohibited for decades during the harsh years of the Francoist dictatorship. And third, Lujanbio had become the first woman to win the championship in the history of the Basques.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter being crowned with the \u003cem\u003etxapela\u003c\/em\u003e, Lujanbio stepped up to the microphone and sung a \u003cem\u003ebertso\u003c\/em\u003eor improvised poem referring to the struggle of the Basques for their language and the struggle of Basque women for their rights. It was a unique moment in the history of an ancient nation that counts its past in tens of millennia: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI remember the laundry that grandmothers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof earlier times carried on the cushion  on their heads]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI remember the grandmother of old times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand today's mothers and daughters. . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.46 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 22, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52915030720828,"sku":"9781949805048","price":58.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/7265\/1324\/files\/NWtkdnF1OGE1MzRRV3ZTcE5vU3JrQT09.webp?v=1774357580","url":"https:\/\/barginbooks.co\/products\/female-improvisational-poets-challenges-and-achievements-in-the-twentieth-century-paperback","provider":"Books Fare ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}