Poetry
Creciendo con la hierba
Not translated into English
Clementina Suárez · 1957
Synopsis
A long poem in eight sections, dedicated “de compañera a compañero”. Love becomes the driving force of human life in it and opens onto a world of solidarity. The voice of a woman wounded by separation, in which roses and their thorns, blood, seeds and growth recur, refuses “un mandato de siervos” and multiplies into mothers, daughters and women who cry out as she does.
Context
The poem appeared in 1957 in San Salvador, from the editorial department of the Ministry of Culture, with illustrations by Luis Ángel Salinas and a cover by José Mejía Vides. Critics see in it a turning point: love, the theme of the whole body of work since the first collection of 1930, regains strength in it, now bound to the collective world, and the personal voice becomes a shared voice. The text can be read today in its author's complete poetry, published in Tegucigalpa in 2012.
Who it is for
A single poem, expansive, written in Spanish, with no French or English translation; reading it requires no prior knowledge.
Prizes and reception
Awarded a prize by the Salvadoran cultural authorities in the year of its publication; a critical study regards it as its author's masterpiece.
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