ISLA IGNORADA / IGNORED ISLAND
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Autor:
Gloria Fuertes
Country:
Spain (ES)
Book Theme:
Contemporary poets of your country
Publisher:
TORREMOZAS
Publishing Year:
2017
She is a writer of fiction, poetry, theatre and a great author of children’s and young people’s literature. Her interest in literature began at the early age of 5, when she was already writing and drawing her own stories. She published her first poem at the age of 14, at 15 she recited her verses on Radio España in Madrid and at 17 she wrote her first book ‘Isla Ignorada’
In the 40s he entered the professional literary world. She collaborated in several magazines and founded the group ‘Versos con faldas’ which gave recitals and readings in the cafés of Madrid. She organised a travelling children’s library in villages to alleviate illiteracy and founded the poetry magazine Arquero. In the 80s her activity was unstoppable and intense and she became, without a doubt, a great contemporary poet
National Award for Children’s and Young People’s
Abstract
Isla ignorada was the first book of poems published by Gloria Fuertes. Edited in the Musa Nueva Collection in 1950, it had a very short print run and very little circulation.
In its verses we can already discover the roots and the genius of her future works, being like a foretaste of what was to be the adult poetry of this great author.
The book focuses on a poetic autobiography with an intimate and existentialist tone in a dynamic tone like the movement of life.
The poet compares herself to an island in the middle of the ocean, alone and misunderstood: this image transports us to her person, also surrounded by many people, metaphorised in the sea, but who do not understand her. Perhaps that is why she contemplates herself and finds within herself birds, flowers, wild animals, streams and volcanoes.
The following themes are dealt with:
-Intimate and analytical autobiography; the poetic self looks inward and sees herself as an island in a sea that is not always friendly.
-Recognition of the positive and negative, but not well known, aspects of her personality: generosity, emotional richness, but also disturbing and secret recesses.
-Lamentation of the incomprehension of others and, at the same time, vindication of her isolation.
The poem ends with a vindication of her proud solitude and the security of doing what she must.
