Poetry
Llama guardada
Not translated into English
Vidaluz Meneses · 1974
Synopsis
Llama guardada (Kept Flame): the author's first collection, gathering poems written from 1971 to 1974. A lyrical and intimate poetry, discreet, beneath which a political and social protest surfaces: a morning in nature becomes in it a desire for freedom, and the meditation on approaching death fills with images of war, down to the dead of Vietnam.
Context
The collection appeared in Managua in 1974, under a title suggested to her by the novelist Fernando Silva. The author belongs to the generation of Nicaraguan women poets of the seventies, with Gioconda Belli, Michele Najlis and Daisy Zamora. The book was included in 1991 in the anthology Llama en el aire, from Nueva Nicaragua, and María Roof translated poems from it in a bilingual anthology, Flame in the Air, which won an award in 2013 at the International Latino Book Awards.
Who it is for
For discovering the beginnings of a female voice of Nicaragua, in Spanish or in the bilingual English anthology of her poems.
Prizes and reception
La Prensa literaria reads in it a discreet poetry that speaks in veiled words of the refusal of the established order in Nicaragua.
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