Poetry
Poemas de la izquierda erótica
Not translated into English
Ana María Rodas · 1973
Synopsis
Poemas de la izquierda erótica (Poems of the Erotic Left): the author's first collection, written in a woman's voice with a familiar and harsh tone. The poems make woman the subject of desire and not its object, and refuse the roles assigned to her. They target a companion more concerned with virility than with equality, and a revolutionary left that leaves machismo intact, against the background of the country's political violence.
Context
The collection appeared in Guatemala City in 1973, under a military regime, in the time of the dictatorships. Its title, which joins two words then proscribed, caused a scandal, and critics have since held it to be an essential collection of Guatemalan poetry. Reissued in 1998 and then in 2019 in Madrid, it was the subject of a critical volume edited by Aída Toledo in 2004, and Dan Eltringham translated a selection into English in 2022.
Who it is for
For reading, in Spanish, a collection that opened in Central America a free and rebellious women's poetry.
Prizes and reception
A. Barrientos Tecún makes it the spearhead of a new women's poetry in Central America.
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