Presents Piedad Bonnett Testimonial Book with a essay component

Colombian writer Piedad Bonnett, winner of the Reina Sofía Prize for Ibero -American Poetry 2024, stressed that in her recent book The uncertain woman (Alfaguara) Explore Simultaneous different beings that inhabit it, of which some have become so distant and I need to bring to see them in relation to the whole.

The poet and teacher came to Mexico to present this volume last Wednesday and also to launch her anthology The terrible is the edge, Coeditated this year by Circle of Poetry and Viewer Books Mexico. Today he will talk to Andree Orozco, Fernando Leal Audirac and Mario Bojórquez, at 6 pm, at the College of San Ildefonso (Justo Sierra 16, Historic Center).

Bonnett (Amalfi, Colombia, 1951) recalled that The uncertain woman It arose during the health emergency through COVID-19 when I watch on television the issue of mass deaths, which “detonated my adolescence, when I somatized everything.

“We have many possible biographies and many things that we omit for irrelevant or because memory has sunk them forever. Simultaneously we are those different beings, but there are some who are sunk in the dark and that I explode in this book.

One discovers that there are some who disappeared and others always remain; In my case, the anxious girl who was still a latency in me. He lives in me, I have to have placadita, but there is another one that grew late: the woman with the assurances in her own writing skills. That has been affirmed. And the opposites can also coincide.

Political literature

The author mentioned that The uncertain woman it’s a hybridin the sense of the texts that are breaking with the fixed molds of novel or autobiography. I would say that it is a testimonial book with a large essay component for the sum of what it narrates and what it states.

It was defined as an intellectual in the meaning that was given to the word in the 19th century, which means a person interested in all manifestations of reality. “I write a literature that is in the background and try to live up to the times.

“The first thing that was born in me was poetry. When I was 10 years old, I already wrote poemitas, but I wanted to deny that. At 20, as he lived in a very politicized world, under the influence of the Cuban revolution, Vietnam’s war passed, the jipis came. There I wanted to make more political literature and it occurred to me that the narrative was what touched me.

Poetry returned after a moment of tremendous sterility. He saved me. First of all I am a poet, for the type of mind that I have, the associative capacity and the look.

He said that his 12 -year work of Sunday columnist in newspapers has made his gaze expand. “I love the possibility that my word works in different records, knowing that some things I will do better than others. That has led me to the very big interest in the essay. I am a compulsive trial reader. The more novel and less orthodox they are, the more I like them.

I am always looking for poetry. It is very difficult to find poets that surprise one. I read a lot of novel and also disagreed very often with them, but I do fabulous finds anyway.

Around The terrible is the edgePiedad Bonnett commented that It seems to me a very consistent job that comes from a very long knowledge of all my poetry on behalf of the Malola Romero Carbonell.

“That anthology seems very comprehensive, including poems of The inhabitants that are neither in the collection of the Economic Culture Fund nor in the Poetry gathered. He comes to give as a much more complete vision than my poetry has been so far. ”

He informed that it includes poems of its next appearance volume The men of my lifeof the appendix Pandemic poems.

The poet said she works in a new poems and a prose text on a rare postcovid ailment she suffers and in which I can reflect on the relationship with the world that suddenly the disease interferes.

It is a text about paraosmia or cacosmia. Those who suffer from it do not resist certain foods because they have a rotten taste. Not as meat seven months ago, I can’t drink coffee or consume anything that has gone through the fire. In order not to surrender to anguish or despair, it is better to process it with the words.