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Thursday, April 28, 2011
Rushing Roulette Game
Leticia Herrera met in early October 2008, he invited me to participate in the XII International Meeting of Writers in Monterrey (Mexico), dedicated this time to the topic " Sexuality and Literature. "I presented some my poetry and a presentation about eroticism and literature, entitled "The Origin of the World" (in homage to Courbet box), which was subsequently published in the journal Bolivia The Feathered Lizard (Fall 2009 ) and the Mexican Replicante (February 2011).
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| Leticia Herrera Fernando Arrabal |
Leticia Herrera was then Director of Arts Council for Culture and Arts of Nuevo León (CONARTE) and had responsibility for several years organizing the event, inviting storytellers and poets of the first order. I had to share these days with the likes of English (living in France), Fernando Arrabal, the Chilean poet Raul Zurita, Ledo Ivo Brazilian, Argentine Rodolfo Alonso, Dolores Castro and Mexico, among others.
Leticia was then that gave me a little book called Living is impossible (2000), where I found Soledad, that captivated me. Three verses as simple as mysterious: " yesterday I went to cut hair / needed someone to touch me / help ." These verses of a poem as soon as infinity were a key to read it. So I found his poetry fresh and crisp to the ear like freshly baked bread.
In 2010 I was asked to write the preface to his "provisional anthology" Just say I was and I accepted welcome the opportunity to present this review early poetry. Any anthology is a balance, in this case one that is half way to close one stage and look ahead.
The book was just released in Mexico (February 2011), published by The Ink in the mirror. In my foreword I go into the stages of the poetry of Leticia Herrera, well represented by the selected poems of several books: Pay per view (1984), Eagle Ridge (1985), Poems to mourn (1985-1990), snail (1996), Living is impossible (2000), needed rain (2002), and For we also come (2006).
Reading Leticia Herrera is a mixture of pleasure, curiosity and shared suffering because in his poetry there are fibers that touch us all somehow feel the same giddiness of being " to match the circumstances s" (of passion and love) "without the parachute reason ".
From Payment to see (1984) Leticia Herrera's poetry exudes eroticism and sensuality, which I think is one of its main attributes. One can not pass with impunity eyes to verses like these: " love your kisses wet / soaked dripping open your lips / your skin is broken / under the blade of my fingers ", written from the experience certainly a sublime experience for the poetic exercise.
In Eagle Ridge (1985), tells us that "A sex that opens / is like a brand new dawn without "and again, the book is crossed by the nerve of desire and pain. Physical love is a way of being alive, but it always entails the pain of loss, which Poems to mourn (1985-1990) becomes a prolonged absences mourning, memories and substitutions.
Poetry is a refuge, a shell to protect against indifference, as in snail (1996), where " was so fragile that mourn / is dehydrating. "Leticia Herrera has that ability to say much with few words, there is nothing left over because his words are like keys that open other ways, such as tracks that one can continue to invest their memory.
Sexuality is an ongoing theme in the poetry of Leticia Herrera. Sometimes appears as if reluctantly, sometimes explosively, as a vindication of women who will not shut up, and that it intends to say everything with all his lyrics in an act of liberation. Thus, there is the least evil to write a poem of a single verse that says: "lame ergo sum", because the catch for the pure pleasure humans is as humanizing as writing poetry, and already told us that beautiful things Octavio Paz.
A delicate eroticism sometimes, and sometimes a stark sexuality emerge breaking the shell of the poems. They are not incompatible " bullet of your hands / where hint / traces of me / sin" and "to most women / ashamed to say / that we like to methamphetamine / but if we like the mess we . " Sexuality appears as in everyday life, in dialogue with other simple, delightfully stirring pleasure these particles released from the body, and some repress and other scattered generously.
Life is full of searches and search poetry is permanent, so that these poems are witness to this woman's journey marked by curiosity. Love and sex are not parallel paths are the same route, so these verses: " if not for the phallus / no men would " or " melancholy is a Aztec dog / biting my vagina . " For the reader, it is refreshing to read poems by women who are not gagged by guilt and are as a response to Mexican machismo.
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| Leticia Herrera and Alfonso Gumucio, in Monterrey, October 2008 |
While my favorites are the poems erotic Leticia Herrera discusses other forms of everyday life and does so with the same passion, spontaneity and heartbreaking sincerity. Counterweight to the short poem of a single verse (above), Leticia started the 50 poems of "Living impossible" with the longest, " From nest ", 380 verses describing his memory from age 5 to 14 that begins to suffer the breaking away of adolescence that is passed from girl to woman, without losing the innocence necessary to write many years later .
this anthology would not be complete without also include unpublished poems, that is, those who remain in the shadow poets sometimes modesty and sometimes because they need to rest a while. The unpublished poems Leticia Herrera is a way to tell the reader "here I am today, now." They keep the lines short, witty, That way of playing with words to give them new meanings, and experiential terms is a somewhat skeptical eye on life, on the need to adapt to changing circumstances to survive and cope with the weight: " move the soul skin / and / body tense as the rough / innocent of the evil . "
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