"‘Down from the mountain they forbade us swarm frantic men,
brandishing their manuals of transcendental reason.’ The mountain
is of course Mount Olympus, and the frantic men Spain’s all-male
poetry establishment bent on excluding women from all their
activities. ‘Not to confront them,’ continues Erika Martínez,
‘would be to bow one’s head in shame in front of one’s own
mirror.’ Women poets have only been published in numbers in Spain
in the last 25 years and still account for only 15% of the poetry
books published every year. The Premio Nacional de Poesía has been
awarded 52 times and been won by a woman 4 times. It isn’t at all
uncommon for influential anthologies to be all-male or include at
most one or two women among twenty men. Women are usually absent
from the lists of the most venerable publishers. The founder of
Visor, Jesús García Sánchez, known affectionately as Chus Visor,
recently declared in El Mundo’s culture supplement:
‘…women’s poetry doesn’t bear comparison to men’s. There
wasn’t an important woman poet in the whole of the twentieth
century and there isn’t one now.’ This neglect and disdain
(gradually diminishing in the new generation) and the consequent
delay in the appearance of Spanish women poets in translation was
one of the motives for this anthology, but to bring their musical,
lucid, forthright poems to English readers is its principal
intent." —from Terence Dooley’s Afterword to this volume This
is the first anthology of its kind to appear in the UK, and
features ten poets: Pilar Adón, Martha Asunción Alonso, Graciela
Baquero, Mercedes Cebrián, María Eloy-García, Berta García
Faet, Erika Martínez, Elena Medel, Miriam Reyes and Julieta Valero
— one born in the 1960s, six in the 1970s and three in the 1980s.
General
Imprint: |
Shearsman Books
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
August 2020 |
Editors: |
Terence Dooley
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Translators: |
Terence Dooley
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 12mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
190 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-84861-722-3 |
Subtitles: |
Spanish
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Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-84861-722-4 |
Barcode: |
9781848617223 |
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