WOMEN TO EXACTLY
"bastard / was Mick! / He said that no / go to bed / with me because / I was fat. / I was not fat, / Mick / was pregnant." That voice, among other English poets of the century, we read in the anthology Women in ink that Atemporia UNAM Publishing co-publishes with
Throughout the twentieth century women's poetry in Spain ran with little luck. Few were the voices that might highlight, in particular along the Franco dictatorship. It is exceptional for Angela Figueras, who left against the solid work that deserves recognition for his bravery thematic and stylistic subtlety.
But things change, thankfully. A new generation of women poets, born between the sixties and eighties has entered the English literary scene in an almost explosive publishing a large number of texts that seem to want to cry from the rooftops that their presence is ultimately nothing the will stop and that silence was left behind as a shameful stain to be deleted.
A sample of these new voices Uberto Stabile has compiled in the book Women in ink. XXI century English poets, gathering thirty-one voices that are not willing to have removed the word.
Poets necessarily different, as different is the contemporary society. Urged on, yes, to say the truth, to express their own emotions, their own desires, frustration, rage, courage, and with its own language with its own musicality, with their own gear poetic. Borrow not literary, but snatched his word for it and discard the useless.
women's writing through the poetry is needed, urgently. Maillard Chantal recalls: "writing / ...para feel alive / STILL / to postpone the agony ... write / to rebel! / No place for prayers / no room for tranquility."
No schools, no groups, no slogans, no voices, female voices with a great awareness of their own freedom and that is enough, that is also compelling. A "bee wolf ears" call Deborah Vukusic, "half Galician, Croatian half," recalls his mother saying "do not let them touch your things / women if left to spend." But she replies: "touch me / touch me / I just want to feel alive." Poetry rebellious, libertarian in the truest sense.
The poetic naturalness comes to manifest itself in extreme ways and Roxana Popelka claim is straightforward: "What a bastard / was Mick! / He said that no / go to bed / with me because / I was fat. / I was not fat , / Mick / was pregnant. "
Pero no todo tiene ese tono. Obviamente. Cuando Miriam Reyes habla de su padre enfermo, se destila una tristeza tan profunda, que el lector acompaña la lectura con un nudo en la garganta: "Papá y mamá lloran /cada uno espaldas del otro en la cama/ en el más crudo estruendoso silencio/ que modula en frecuencias infrahumanas/ sonidos que se articulan como palabras:/ ".
Escribir para recordar. Sonia San Román describe a su familia: "El abuelo mira en la tele del salón/ la programación en euskera, /pero él piensa en la Guerra Civil, / en sus hermanos, / And its people Extremadura / where life forced him to take sides. / From what I did this morning, not even remember. "
Samples of these poets intense brief, categorical, now spread the poetry in his blog Internet, where hundreds of readers to follow. Poets of the XXI century. Free Women, necessary to make the word currency. The book under review is one of the most refreshing poetic summaries of the current English-language poetry.
Demetrio
Language and Literature
Women in ink. XXI century English poets, Uberto Stabile (ed.). Mexico: UNAM / Atemporia Editions, 2010.
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