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Mayra Santos-Febres

[este cuerpo es un país]

  • 1 [este cuerpo es un país] | Translations: deit
  • 2 [a las guerreras las marca] | Translations: deit
  • 3 [a qué renuncia la mujer que escribe] | Translations: deit
  • 4 (luna en Piscis) | Translations: deit
  • 5 [Ah si morenita, véndeme tu carne por un beso] | Translations: de
  • 6 [en el vientre de los nuevos animales] | Translations: de
  • 7 [flota mi morenito] | Translations: de
  • 8 [la costa allá morena por la noche] | Translations: de
  • 9 [cambiar de nombre] | Translations: de
  • 10 [Llegas a la ciudad donde te pierdes] | Translations: de
Language: spanish
Translations: german ([dieser Körper ist ein Land]), italian ([questo corpo è un paese])
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[este cuerpo es un país]

este cuerpo es un país- pensó la mujer que escribe

la que por vez primera puso
su estampa sobre las superficies de la tierra.

este cuerpo es materia
como la piedra
y en él se encuentran dos sangres

la que traen los hombres de la caza
la que traemos las mujeres a la puerta.

una sangre atrae la depredación,

la otra marca los ciclos del tiempo.

veintiocho lunas
y la sangre resurge oscura
se vuelve tinta permanente
me convierte en fruta de la fruta.

estas piedras que todo lo han visto
conocen la historia.


sabe que todas las sangres son una.

© Mayra Santos-Febres
From: Lecciones de renuncia
Audio production: Haus für Poesie, 2019
Categories: series & cycles, identity (personal), gender & sexuality, woman, body, writing (poetry)

Translations:

Language: german

[dieser Körper ist ein Land]

dieser Körper ist ein Land, dachte die schreibende Frau

die Frau, die zum ersten Mal
ihren Abdruck auf die Erdoberfläche setzte.

dieser Körper ist Materie
genau wie Stein
und in ihm stecken zwei Sorten Blut

eins, das die Männer von der Jagd mitbringen
eins, das wir Frauen zur Tür bringen.

das eine Blut lockt den Räuber,

das andere zeichnet die Zyklen der Zeit.

achtundzwanzig Monde
und wieder quillt dunkles Blut hervor
wird zu fester Tinte
verwandelt mich in die Frucht der Frucht.

diese Steine, die alles gesehen haben
kennen die Geschichte.


sie weiß, dass alles Blut eins ist.

Aus dem puerto-ricanischen Spanisch von Sarah Otter
Language: italian

[questo corpo è un paese]

questo corpo è un paese – pensò la donna che scrive

quella che per prima impresse
la sua orma sulla faccia della terra.

questo corpo è materia
come la pietra
e in esso si trovano due sangui

quello che portano gli uomini dalla caccia
quello che portiamo noi donne alla porta.

un sangue attrae la depredazione,
un altro segna i cicli del tempo.

ventotto lune
e il sangue risorge oscuro
diventa inchiostro indelebile
mi converte in frutto del frutto.

queste pietre che tutto hanno visto
conoscono la storia.

sanno che tutti i sangui sono un sangue.

Traduzione: Nino Muzzi
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Mayra Santos-Febres

photo © Timo Berger
* 26.02.1966, Carolina, Puerto Rico
lives in: Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico

Mayra Santos-Febres was born in Carolina, Puerto Rico, in 1966. She studied Literature at the University of Puerto Rico and received two postgraduate degrees from Cornell University. She is a professor of Creative Writing at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras and a member of the International and Multicultural Institute of the UPR. She has received, among other awards, the Letras de Oro and the Juan Rulfo, both in the short story genre. She is the recipient of a John S. Simon Guggenheim scholarship (2017) and the Rockefeller Bellagio Center Residency (2018). Her works have been translated into French, English, German, Croatian, Korean, Icelandic and Italian. She is the author of the poetry books Anamú y manigua (1990), The escaped order (1991), Boat People (2005), Tercer Mundo (2014-20), and Huracanada (2018). She has also published the novels, Sirena Selena vestida de pena (2001), Cualquier miércoles soy tuya (2002), Fe en disfraz, Nuestra Señora de la noche, La amante de Gardel, and the collections of essays, Tratado de Medicina Natural para Hombres Melancólicos and Sobre piel y papel.

 photo © Timo Berger
Publications
  • Anamu y manigua

    [poemas]

    Río Piedras, P.R.: Editorial La iguana dorada, 1990

  • El orden escapado

    [poemas]

    1991

  • Pez de vidrio

    [relatos cortos]

    1994

  • El cuerpo correcto

    1996

  • Urban Oracles

    Translated by Nathan Budoff u. Lydia Platon Lázaro

    Cambridge: Lumen, Brookline, 1997

  • Sirena Selena vestida de pena

    [novela]

    España: Grijalbo Mondadori, 2000

  • Sirena Selena

    [Novel]

    Translated by Stephen Lytle

    New York City: Picador, 2000

  • Tercer mundo

    2000

  • Cualquier miércoles soy tuya

    [novela]

    2002

  • Sobre piel y papel

    2005

  • Boat People

    [poemas]

    2005

  • Any Wednesday I’m Yours

    [Cualquier miércoles soy tuya]

    Translated by James Graham

    New York City: Riverhead, 2005

  • Ernesto , El domador de los suenos

    2008

  • Nuestra Señora de la Noche

    [novela]

    2006

  • Our Lady of the Night

    Translated by Ernesto Mestre-Reed

    New York City: Harper Perennial, 2009

  • Sirena Selena

    A Novel

    Translated into English by Stephen A. Lytle

    Picador, 2007

  • Fe en disfraz

    2009

  • Gedichte

    Puerto-ricanisches Spanisch / deutsch

    Übersetzt von Timo Berger

    Berlin: hochroth Berlin, 2011

  • Tratado de Medicina Natural para Hombres Melancólicos

    2011

  • El baile de la vida

    2012

  • La amante de Gardel

    [novela]

    Editorial Planeta, 2015

  • Sirena Selena

    traduction de François-Michel Durazzo

    Zulma, 2017

  • Huracanada

    Trabalis Editores, 2018

  • La maîtresse de Carlos Gardel

    traduction de François-Michel Durazzo

    Zulma, 2019

  • Lecciones de renuncia

    Universidad Veracruzana, 2020

  • Boat People

    Bilingual edition

    Translated into English by Vanessa Perez-Rosario

    CARDBOARD HOUSE PRESS, 2021

  • Poesía casi completa

    Colección Alfabeto del mundo / Poesía contemporáneael

    1era La Castalia / Línea imaginaria, 2021

Awards
  • Mellon Foundation Fellowship

  • Ford Foundation Fellowship

  • 1991 Award for poetry from Revista Tríptico in Puerto Rico

  • 1994 Award Letras de Oro

  • 1996 Award Juan Rulfo de cuentos

  • 2001 Award Rómulo Gallegos

  • 2007 Premio Nacional de Literatura (Puerto Rico)

  • 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship

  • 2019 Premio Nacional de Literatura de la Academie de Pharmacie en Paris, Francia

Links
  • Mayra Santos-Febres' Blog

    Website

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