MATERIA / MATTER
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Autor:
Yolanda Castaño
Country:
Spain (ES)
Book Theme:
Contemporary poets of your country
Publisher:
EDICIÓNS XERAIS
Publishing Year:
2022
At the age of seventeen she won the FermÃn Bouza Brey Poetry Prize and made her name with the work “Elevar los párpados”. From that moment she began a meteoric career that led her to publish some of the most outstanding titles of Galician poetry in recent decades.
Her intense work as a lecturer, reciter and columnist makes her an invaluable ambassador of Galician literature and culture throughout the world. In A Coruña she directs the cycle Poetas “Di(n)versos”, a monthly forum in which Galician and international poets recite their texts. Every autumn he coordinates an International Poetry Translation Workshop on the unique island of San Simón (Vigo) in which authors from all over the world take part.
National Award for Children’s and Young People’s
Abstract
Yolanda Castaño affirms that with this work, she seeks to “question” the concept of family, “contribute to the debate” but “always from the point of view of love”.
Legacies, relationships and even family projections: hence the “matter” of which we are made. Both in its liquid state, capable of moistening the roots of our ancestors, and in the solidity that shapes us today.
In this great poetic proposal, the author deals with everything from historical memory to the chiaroscuros of the renunciation of motherhood, in which each state of matter is expressed in its own tone.
Yolanda Castaño’s poems enter decisively into matter, they do not dissimulate, they do not pass by, barely suspended in an echo.
The poet flees from patterns and comfortable verses, she does not conform to a scheme or a determined structure, she gives another turn of the crank, she makes another diction sound.
