Poetry
Poemas de ausencia
Not translated into English
Ricardo J. Bermúdez · 1937
Synopsis
Poems of absence, of which the anthology Poesía selecta includes five pieces that all carry the same word in their title: poem of impossible forgetting, of infinite sorrow, of tangible delirium, of growing flight, of the final dream. They are written for the most part in eleven-syllable verse, in a hermetic language laden with images, where metaphor does almost all the work.
Context
The collection was published in Panama in 1937, before its author left to study architecture in California. The critic Aristides Martínez Ortega places it in the second generation of the Panamanian avant-garde and stresses that it is made up mostly of hendecasyllables. Elsie Alvarado de Ricord, who devoted a study to this work, sees in it a whole built entirely on metaphor, sometimes on pure metaphor. Its pieces were taken up again in Poesía selecta, an anthology published in 1982 by Signos.
Who it is for
A slim collection, in Spanish, with no published translation; pieces from it can be read in the 1982 anthology, digitised by the National Library of Panama.
Prizes and reception
The first collection, hermetic and rich in images, by a poet who was also an architect, a university dean and a minister.
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