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Issue Details: First known date: 1994... 1994 Introduction
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Gomez writes that Clavel del Aire is the name of a flower in Uruguay that 'doesn't grow in a pot, it doesn't need soil. The seed is carried by the wind and it can grow anywhere.... This flower has no roots, it can survive dramatic weather changes and it can resist extreme conditions.' She continues: 'I feel my life as a migrant woman is similar to the life of this flower' (5).

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    y separately published work icon The Flying Carnation Clavel del Aire Marisa Cano (editor), Marisa Cano (translator), Cabramatta : Fairfield Community Arts Network , 1994 Z1376498 1994 anthology prose poetry Marisa Cano, in the Foreword to this collection writes that she was surprised when she first came to Australia to find that for most Australians 'Spanish' was used to describe 'anybody who came from a Spanish-speaking country' (1), implying on some level a homogenious group. 'With this in mind,' she writes, 'I began thinking about producing a book of stories written by Spanish speaking individuals of our community that would give us an insight into the different countries comprising the Latin American and Spanish world, showing them as independent entities' (1). Cabramatta : Fairfield Community Arts Network , 1994 pg. 5
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