Materia Prima Natalie Diaz

Materia Prima Natalie DiazAmanda Berenguer (ed. Kristin Dykstra and Kent Johnson) This is the first English language collection of Amanda Berenguer's poetry. A key contributor to Uruguay's famed literary Generacin del 45, Berenguer (1921 2010) stands among the most important post World War II poets of Latin America, along with her now legendary compatriot Marosa di Giorgio. Berenguer's poetry, stylistically and conceptually varied, ranges from classic, measured lyric to

made strange

Publishers of the first Castilian translation released only a selection of works from the manuscript due to the political implications of this poetry (leaving out 50 poems in total)

As the morning progresses

wat is er van mij

Wonderlijk misschien

Varela lived briefly in Paris in the late '40s and '50s where she quickly became friends with Andre Breton

de schort die men alle dagen omdoet en op vrijdagavond meeneemt om te wassen

the other at the beginning of the 21st century

" Founded on this same principle

—but turned on to some bolder / axon

Given the nativism of our current climate

Het is een prachtig gedicht over een vrouw die werd verleid en haar hart voelde breken