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Margara Russotto
Born 1946 in Italy; has lived in Venezuela since late childhood. Has also lived in Brazil and lately in the United States. Was a professor of literature at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas and at present teaches Literature At the Univerity of Massachusetts at Amherst. Books of poems: Restos del Viaje, 1979; Brasa, 1979 (CONAC Poetry Prize); Viola d'Amore, 1986; Epica Mínima, 1996 (poetry prize of the XI Bineal José Antonio Ramos Sucre, 1995); El diario intimo de Sor Juana (poemas apócrifos), 2002. Poesia di due mondi (Spanish-Italian bi-lingual edition), 2003. In her work a sympathetic humour is an important ingredient, she studies questions like "loss of roots and interpenetration of cultures" in the "many women poets hybrid by nationality" and she keeps a constant eye on the social resonance of her subjects. ( She is speaking in particular of EPICA MINIMA, Cumaná: Fundación J.A.Ramos Sucre, 1996) |
HOUSEHOLD DEMANDS, 1 do you see these fine plates well i know that if i dare smash them against the tree over there and the rage will give me back the right nourishment.
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HOLIDAYS WITHOUT HEGEL Whole villages wild ivy donkeys Here work is reduced Here Sprawling Nothing has moved us Nothing has upset us We have liked so far away among the folds of sand Naked in the open air Dirty The sea The light At most The animals' stupor Nobody Suitable quotations nor the duty of pronouncing Only interjections Because talking And implying Dirt No redeeming passion We have humiliated no one The song came by itself its burnt salt lips deep and weightless and dewed with foam
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NO ONE CAN HAVE BEEN HAPPIER THAN US They all died they all died
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