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Translation: Mariblanca Sábas Alomá

Posted on November 18, 2008 by Liz Henry

Mariblanca Sábas Alomá (1901–1983) Mariblanca Sábas Alomá was an Ultraist feminist Cuban writer. She was involved with the first Congreso Nacional de Mujeres in Havana in 1923. Her work was published in El Cubano Libre, Diario de Cuba, Orto and … Continue reading →

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Translation: Claudia Lars

Posted on November 14, 2008 by Liz Henry

Here’s my chapter on Claudia Lars. I found this a hard poem to translate. Though I could’t do it justice, I enjoyed trying. Vanguardist poetry is hard, in general. I think because it is built on so much symbolism from … Continue reading →

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Poetry Month: Day 2, Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva

Posted on April 2, 2008 by Liz Henry

Happy Poetry Month! Today I have been thinking about Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva, a Venezuelan poet from the 20th century (1886-1962). Her poems are small and odd, but huge internally, like a pocket universe captured and studied from all sides; a … Continue reading →

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Long poems last for a long time

Posted on September 24, 2007 by Liz Henry

Lately, poetry is all coming in floaty long phrases. It’s all endless stretching introductions full of commas. I think it’s because I’m in a beginning, and don’t have the clarity to send down a full stop sort of root into … Continue reading →

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provocations

Posted on April 25, 2006 by Liz Henry

While I’m writing all this feminist criticism I do find that I spend a lot of time describing and refuting sexist criticism. There should actually be a special category or word for works that especially offend, that are so egregiously … Continue reading →

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List of poets in the anthology

Posted on March 5, 2006 by Liz Henry

Here’s the list of women poets that I have translated so far (some, many poems; some, only one). limitation is that they should have been publishing or writing between 1880 and 1930. I have another list of many more poets … Continue reading →

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Fitting and not fitting

Posted on December 21, 2005 by Liz Henry

While I was doing my research I pretty much ignored Chile and in fact I have completely ignored Gabriela Mistral because I figure everyone else has written about her already, and she’s well known. Ultimately I have to go and … Continue reading →

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Genre classifications and sexism

Posted on December 8, 2005 by Liz Henry

I come up against this again and again. Critical literature focuses on defining a genre, and women end up just outside that definition. So it always looks like they just miss the boat because they’re not quite good enough. Really, … Continue reading →

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Damned with machista praise

Posted on November 14, 2005 by Liz Henry

From an essay by José Carlos Mariátegui – cited by Daisy Zamora in the intro to her anthology, La mujer nicaragüense en la poesía: “Los versos de las poetisas generalmente no son versos de mujer. No se siente en ellos … Continue reading →

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Anthologizing; standards of selection

Posted on November 11, 2005 by Liz Henry

I’ve been working on my anthology project for over a year. It’s of poems by Latin American women writers – well, Spanish America – and is focused on work published between 1880 and 1930. My goal is to give a … Continue reading →

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