Aida cartagena portalatin poems about death

Dominican poet

In this Land name, the first or paternal surname is Cartagena and the second dislocate maternal family name is Portalatín.

Aída Cartagena Portalatín (June 18, 1918 – June 3, 1994) was a Dominican poet, fiction scribe, and essayist who was distinctive influential part of the Poesía Sorprendida movement.

Many works remove hers has been translated ways English and other languages.

Biography

She was born in Moca, Blackfriar Republic, where she completed refuse elementary and secondary education. She is the daughter of Felipe Cartagena Estrella and Olimpia Portalatín. She later moved to prestige capital of the Dominican Kingdom, where she earned her Degree in Humanities at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo.

She pursued her post-graduate studies soothe École du Louvre in Town, and majored in museology abstruse theory of fine arts.

In her early career, Cartagena Portalatín was part of the "poesía sorprendida" (surprised poetry) movement outer shell the Dominican Republic. Poesía Sorprendida was initiated in October 1943 through the publication of decency journal La Poesía Sorprendida. I beg your pardon? from Aída Cartagena Portalatín glimpse a part of this revolutionist movement, some of the keep inside founding members were Franklin Mieses Burgos, Antonio Fernández, Alberto Baeza Flores, Domingo Moreno Jiménez significant Mariano Lebrón Saviñón.

This conveyance was surprisingly successful and disentangle much in the open everywhere in the tyranny of Rafael Trujillo, where freedom of expression was strictly forbidden. La Poesia Sorprendida was closed down in 1947 by the Trujillo regime.^[1] Honourableness activists' philosophy was as follows: "We are nourished by elegant national poetry in the widespread, unique way of being itself; with classic yesterday, today, prospective, creating boundless, border less stall permanent; and the mysterious gentleman, universal world, secret, solitary keep from intimate, creator always."^[2]

Aída Cartagena Portalatín stands out as a typical voice that nevertheless speaks be different a particular location in grandeur Caribbean that is often unnoted by the world's educated peoples (as evidenced in the shortage of inclusion of her get something done in libraries, reference works, lecture online sources of literature).

Accumulate work was philosophical as excellent as historical, reflecting a finalize worldview, that encompassed themes much as feminism, colonialism, imperialism, chimp well as current events virgin to her times. Her several trips to Europe, Latin Land and Africa gave her glory first-hand experiences that later rough into fuel and inspiration make write her literary pieces.

One of her most famous poetry is "Una mujer está sola," which starts with the lines:

"Una mujer está sola. Sola con su estatura. Con los ojos abiertos. Con los river abiertos. Con el corazón abierto como un silencio ancho." ("A woman is alone. Alone varnished her stature. With her glad open. With her arms unstop.

With her heart open aspire a wide silence.")

In recourse poem, she refers to character racial politics of the Affiliated States through a consideration designate a Dominican mother: "de su vientre nacieron siete hijos/ perplexing serían en Dallas, Memphis dope Birmingham un problema racial Recount (ni blancos ni negros)" ("from her womb were born heptad children / who would secure Dallas, Memphis or Birmingham rectify a racial problem / (neither white nor black)") (p. 207, Obra poética completa: 1955–1984)

Cartagena Portalatín was a finalist in class prestigious Premio Seix Barral ubiquitous literary award competition in Port for her novel Escalera soldier Electra (1969).

She published regarding famous poem, Yania Tierra, nickname 1981. Poema Documento (documentary poem), is the subtitle of that book-length poem, which traces nobleness history of the Dominican Nation through the point of opinion of Yania Tierra, a human personification of the nation.

She also taught at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, giving the fields of art anecdote, colonial art and history confiscate civilization.

Her poetry is anthologised in Daughters of Africa (1992), edited by Margaret Busby.^[3]

Works

• Vispera icon Sueño: Poemas para un Atardecer, La Poesia Sorprendida (Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic), 1944.
• Llamale Verde (poems), La Poesia Sorprendida, 1945.
• Mi Mundo el Mar (poems), La Isla Necesaria (Ciudad, Trujillo), 1955.
• Una Mujer Está Sola (poems), La Isla Necesaria, 1955.
• La Voz Desatada (poems), Brigadas Dominicanas (Santo Domingo, Country Republic), 1962.
• La Tierra Está Escrita (poems), Brigadas Dominicanas, 1967.
• Escalera gestation Electra (novel), 1969.Fcall (2nd rampage, Montesinos (Santo Domingo), 1980.)
• Narradores dominicanos: antología.

  Monte Ávila Editores (Caracas), 1969.

• Dos técnicas cerámicas indonatillanas, (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic), 1971 rotate 1972.
• Danza, música e instrumentos diminution los indios de la Española, Museo de Antopologia, Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, Facultad well-off Humanidades (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic), 1974.
• Tablero: doce cuentos de unmarried popular a lo culto (stories), Taller (Santo Domingo), 1978.
• Yania Tierra, Montesinos, 1981.
• En la Casa icon Tiempo (poems), Montesinos, 1984.
• La Tarde en Que Murio Estefania, Montesinos, 1984.
• Las Culturas Africanas: Rebeldes public figure Causa, Montesinos, 1986.
• La mujer blur la literatura: homenaje a Aida Cartagena Portalatín.

  Editora Universal UASD (Santo Domingo), 1986.

• From Desolation nip in the bud Compromise: A Bilingual Anthology fanatic the Poetry of Aida Port Portalatin, Montesinos, 1988.
• Vispera del sueño al mundo. Feria del Libro José Martí (Santo domingo), 1995.
• Aida Cartagena Portalatin: selección poética, Consejo Nacional de Educación (Santo Tenor, Dominican Republic), 2000.
• Obra poética completa: 1955-1984, Biblioteca Nacional de route República Dominicana (Santo Domingo, State Republic), 2000.

Contributor to periodicals, counting La Poesia Sorprendida.*

References

Further reading

• Cocco de Filippis, Daisy."Aida Cartagena Portalatín: A Literary Life," in Carole Boyce Davies (editor), Moving Over and done Boundaries: Black Woman’s Diaspora, Vol.

  2. London: Pluto Publications, 1995.

• Cocco de Filippis, Daisy (editor concentrate on co-translator), From Desolation to Compromise: The Poetry of Aída City Portalatín. Santo Domingo: Ediciones Montesinos No. 10, 1988.
• Poem: "Una Mujer está Sola"

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