Poetry
Cármenes
Not translated into English
Juan Liscano · 1966
Synopsis
Love poems that exalt the body and desire. After books that were still confessional, their author saw in them the full affirmation of eroticism and, with it, of the desiring self. Bodies become landscapes of rain and tropics, the beloved's face is reflected in the water, her hands cross the seasons; on a beach, two lovers watch the waves and think of death. One poem, “Pareja sin historia”, shows a couple who caress each other and need nothing else. A presentation reads in it the union of opposites, of sky and earth, of day and night.
Context
The collection appeared with Losada, in Buenos Aires, in 1966. Questioned by the magazine Inti, its author placed it after Humano destino, a book that was still confessional, as the moment when eroticism and the self assert themselves without reserve. A reissue by Fundarte presented it as a book that raises sexual experience to a universal and mythical dimension, and Letralia sees in it the contact of two beings, where the lucid observer accompanies the lover of life, in the accord between eroticism and spirituality that the whole body of work seeks.
Who it is for
A collection in Spanish, with no translation; the eroticism in it is direct and comes through images of nature, from rain to sea.
Prizes and reception
Its author saw it as the book in which his eroticism is fully affirmed, and a reissue described it as carrying a mythical dimension.
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