Poetry
Al norte de la sangre
Not translated into English
Ana Enriqueta Terán · 1946
Synopsis
The poet's first book brings together sonnets of strict form, in which the line obeys the rhythm and the stanza the rhyme. Love speaks in them, with desire, absence and the fleeting pleasure of the embrace, in a language nourished by the Spanish classics, Garcilaso and Góngora foremost. According to Vilma Vargas's reading, the classical structure sometimes follows Romantic slopes, and enjambment is frequent; other readers see in it the classical already turned towards the avant-garde.
Context
The book appeared in Caracas in 1946 from Ediciones Suma. A study published in 2018 states that the house was run by Juan Liscano and that the collection was sponsored by Enrique Planchart, a poet of the generation of 1918 and director of the National Library. It opens a body of work which, up to the last book of 2014, kept the sonnet and the tercet alongside free verse, and the volume that gathered it in 1991, Casa de hablas, still takes 1946 as its starting point.
Who it is for
A collection of sonnets in Spanish, with no French translation; an English anthology of the poet appeared in Princeton in 2003.
Prizes and reception
Its author's first book; overviews of her career always cite it first, from 1946 to the last collection of 2014.
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