Poetry
Los juegos peligrosos
Not translated into English
Olga Orozco · 1962
Synopsis
Through magic and rites, the voice of the collection embarks on an adventure that is to lead it beyond reality, according to M. E. Legaz in the journal Gramma: sorcery, talismans, tarot, haunting dreams, conjurations and a desperate quest for identity, poetic creation being the boldest of these games. In “Sol en Piscis”, the poet cannot manage to say the word that would account for his path; “Si me puedes mirar” is an elegy. Biografías y Vidas notes in the work the long verse line and a visionary imagination.
Context
The collection was published in 1962 by Losada, according to the BnF; the author had obtained a National Fund for the Arts grant in 1961, according to Biografías y Vidas. Legaz sees in it a deepening of the exploration of what exceeds empirical reality. The author is placed in the third avant-garde, of surrealist tendency, and her themes include identity, death, myth and the occult; Biografías y Vidas stresses the influence of French poetry that came after surrealism.
Who it is for
Poems in verses, in Spanish; some have appeared in French in a selection by Claude Couffon.
Prizes and reception
For Legaz, the collection in which poetry deepens its progress towards a higher reality, by means of rites.