Venganza de la manzana

In a prison cell in Latin America, a woman is trying to remember every single poem she has ever written, begins Alicia Partnoy in the introduction to Revenge of the Apple, her collection of intimately powerful poems written before her 'disappearance' in Argentina, in prison and in exile in the United States.Her wrists no longer bound, she is now 'free' to dance around this nine-by-six cell, to wash her hands and enjoy the 'privilege' of her own toilet, and to read the messages scratched into the walls with the bottom edges of toothpaste tubes. Most importantly, her captors have given her a precious pen and a brand new notebook...