Keywords: Poetry, Mourning, Absence, Filiation, International Poetry.
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Lolbé González Arceo
Spanish-Italian
Translated from the Spanish by Silvio Mignano
Foreword by Gabriela Kizer
2024
Hardcover | 114 pages | 5.5 x 8.5 inches
Paperback | 112 pages | 5.5 x 8.5 inches
Abuela
Nunca más
tu nombre
en vocativo
en esa imposibilidad del lenguaje
otra forma del dolor.
- Lolbé González Arceo
First and foremost, we hold in our hands a meditation on language: the name that never becomes one’s own, the bond between reality and the words with which we try to grasp and configure it. Perhaps the object or end of these approximations is less important than the movement that occasions and stimulates them. The title that encompasses this set of poems is therefore apt: approaches to and from a word that questions, doubts, and is sometimes quite skeptical. The force that moves this poetry is not, seemingly, the possibility of revelation or encounter, but rather approaches, closenesses that heighten “the power of longing.”
- Gabriela Kizer
Winner of the Fifth Annual Poetry Competition organized by Lugar Comun in Miami (2023)
Lolbé González Arceo (Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico. 1986) She is a talented and versatile poet. In addition to dedicating herself to poetry, with a degree in Literary Creation awarded by the Centro Estatal de Bellas Artes, she has a Master's Degree in Clinical Psychology from the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán. Her literary voice has been highlighted through her collaboration in the literary magazine Tranvía, which gave rise to the short story anthology La disolución del cuerpo (2020). Likewise, she is the author of the book Quiscalus mexicanus (2022) and is a member of the poetry workshop of Grafógrafxs magazine.