Alaide Foppa
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Poets always speak to someone. With sword or wheat sheaf They address the people or sing softly to a loved one, revealing unexpected dazzling scenes. Their path is strewn with flowers. But in my dark retreat I bear poetry like a secret disease a hidden illicit fruit.
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Presentation on the Guatemalan poet Alaíde Foppa.
Transcript of Alaide Foppa
Poets always speak to someone.With sword or wheat sheafThey address the peopleor sing softlyto a loved one,revealing unexpecteddazzling scenes.Their path is strewn with flowers.But in my dark retreatI bear poetry like a secret diseasea hiddenillicit fruit.
Alaíde Foppa (1914-?)
Alaíde Foppa•Guatemalan poet, feminist and university professor (Universidad Autónoma de México; Universidad de San Carlos, Guatemala)•Major work: “Elogio de mi cuerpo” (In Praise of My Body)•Lived in exile for several years during civil war•Returned to Guatemala in 1980; “disappeared”
Bottom photos by Jonatan Rodas (http://latatuanagrafica.blogspot.com/2008_07_01_archive.html)
