The Argentine poet committed suicide on October 25, 1938. Here, an edition of thirteen poems read by authors and actors to download for free on all devices.
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Par Patricia Kolesnikov
“Alfonsine “It pushed to the extreme the desires and conflicts that were beginning to emerge in the lives of many women of her time, and before!” said researcher Alejandra Laera in an interview. He speaks – last name is not necessary – of Alfonsine Stornithis Argentine poet who fought against the world and threw herself into the sea on October 25, 1938. “For the soft sand,” says the song by Ariel Ramírez and Félix Luna. But it wasn’t like that: the poet jumped from the breakwater of the spa of the Argentine Women’s Club. One of his shoes was stuck between the irons.
Single working mother. “I earn my living and it’s mine”he says, as a challenge in this very central poem that is The Wolf. She says she walks alone and makes fun of “the herd” (what are the other women) “I have a son, the fruit of love, of a love without Law.”. The boy, Alejandro, was born in 1921. Imagine, women didn’t even vote: that was 30 years from now.
He wrote a lot, some of his poems are part of the collective imagination, they are quoted, they are shared. Perhaps it is for this, and because he continues to speak to us, that a call to record some of his poems and produce an audiobook was immediately accepted. At Leamos – the digital publishing house of Infobae – we wanted to create a listenable version of these verses. A year ago, Malena Sánchez Moccero did the enormous work of collecting her poems, even some that did not make up any book, and so we published Complete poetrya free downloadable e-book with a preface written by Marina Mariasch.
Now it’s the turn of Alfonsina to listen tothirteen deliciously interpreted poems. Can you imagine The wolf read by the intense voice of Lorena Vega? Well, that’s it. “Little sheep, show me your teeth. How small! / You, poor people, will not be able to walk without your owners.“. It shudders.
But did it have to be only women who read the message?Is this the poet who wrote: “you want me white”? Could a man play the one who cheated: “You who keep the skeleton intact/ I still don’t know/ by what miracles,/ you pretend to be white/ (God forgive you),/ you pretend to be chaste/ (God forgive you),/ you pretend dawn! ».
In the team formed by Mateo Hadad, Belén Marinone and this columnist, we discussed it. And we think no, that what a poet expresses belongs to the one who wants to take it, that the one who feels challenged, moved, evoked can speak. So, the writers wanted to do it for this audiobook Mempo Giardinelli, Gonzalo Heredia, Enzo Maqueira y Julian Lopez. They chose the poems they wanted to read. Some, more than one.
Mempo favorite The memory. And he said: “We never loved each other. He went to the countries/from which he does not return». Gonzalo Heredia on demand For what? and said in a deep voice: Oh! “Life, a blow that tears the heart in one fell swoop.”YOU Enzo Maqueira favorite Longevity: a surprisingly optimistic poem. “My nerves are crazy, in the veins/the blood is boiling”.
Ariana Harwicz just published Lose your minda wonderful novel about a mother accused of violence and separated from her children by the courts. In several interviews, she said something similar happened to her. Here, read Fertility: Women! Beauty is a form and the egg is an idea… May the egg triumph!
Actress Luisa Kuliok he thought about it and stayed with it Siren. Which says things like: “Extinguish the roses from my face/ and scare the laughter from my lips/ and pinch the bread between my teeth, / life; and the bouquet of my verses, denies”. Because? “It’s more conceptual,” he told us. And that’s where his careful interpretation went.
Is it that Alfonsine It’s visceral and conceptual, we think of the Leamos team. It’s this hammer on customs, it’s this tear in the open sky, it’s this cry that rivals the force of the sea. And it’s these ideas.
Diana Bellessiperhaps the greatest poet this time around, chose the challenge and stayed with it Sheep lost. “Really lost” Lee. “That the gold I took/did not last in my hands and I gave it to anyone”.
Y Gabriela Cabezón Cámara takes verses in which one can read one’s own self-confidence: “What would people, cut and empty, say, If one fortuitous day, out of ultra-fantasy, I dyed my hair silver and purple (…)”
“I would like, on this divine October afternoon / to walk along the distant shores of the sea”, Natalia Litvinova reads quietly. But things get complicated: “Lose your gaze, distractedly, / lose it and never find it again ».
Alfonsina, as we know, had an affair with Horace Quirogathe author of Jungle Tales. When he committed suicide with cyanide in 1937, she wrote to him Poem to Horacio Quiroga. Here, Julián López reads it with emotion: “We do not live with impunity in the jungle, nor in front of Paraná. / So much the better for your firm hand, great Horacio…/ There they will say ».
The poet had had cancer and had her breast removed in 1935. In January 1938, she told her son Alejandro that she was experiencing symptoms again and would not agree to another invasive treatment. He waited until October and went to Mar del Plata. She stayed at the San Jacinto Hotel, 3 de Febrero Street, which belonged to a friend, Luisa Orioli de Pizzigarni. There – a chorizo house which no longer exists – he picks up the pencil again and composes what will be his last poem. He titled it I’m going to bedput it in an envelope and sent it to the newspaper La Nación. This is how our audiobook ends, with this farewell read by Florence Canale as she knows.
The voiceover was done by Sergio Levinzon.
You must have heart in the right place and headphones in your ears. It’s almost twenty minutes of emotion.
Source : INFOBAE
