Title: What You Have Heard Is True
Description: Describes the author's deep friendship with a mysterious intellectual who introduced her to the culture and people of El Salvador in the 1970s, a tumultuous period in the country's history, inspiring her work as an unlikely activist.
Subjects: New York Times reviewed, Poets, biography, El salvador, history, Political activists, Biography, History, Resistance to Government, American Poets, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Women