Legna Rodríguez Iglesias

A little body are many parts

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Legna Rodríguez Iglesias has quickly become one of the most celebrated Cuban poets writing today. Her intense — often confrontational — poetry refuses to conform, subverting expectations and challenging social mores. Particularly arresting is her uncomfortable focus on the human body, which she dramatises in isolation, stripping it of context, making it strange and even obscene. Alongside poems of extreme descriptive vigour, Rodríguez Iglesias irreverently skewers the hypocrisies, clichés and hierarchies of our time. This selection offers a broad survey of Rodríguez Iglesias’s work, drawing on eight previous collections in Spanish. Throughout, the poems are inflected with Cuban history and explore the tensions between the generation of the Revolution and her own. The consequences of poet’s long-term residence in Miami are forcefully brought home through poems of emigration and estrangement. The playfulness and verbal dexterity that marks Rodríguez Iglesias’s work in Spanish has been expertly brought to life in English by Abigail Parry, an award-winning poet whose debut collection Jinx was published by Bloodaxe in 2018, working in collaboration with bridge-translator and writer Serafina Vick.
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79 printed pages
Original publication
2019
Publication year
2019
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  • Nicté Toxquihas quoted4 years ago
    la vida es una tendencia a sentir asco por muchos ruidos
  • Nicté Toxquihas quoted4 years ago
    Una mujer que llora es un hombre desnudo y feo

    una mujer que fuma es un niño caprichoso

    una mujer que mea es una mala estructura

    una mujer que muere es otra mujer

    una mujer de afuera puede bailar al ritmo

    de los blancos y los negros

    de afuera significa extraña

    de afuera quiere decir de un lugar extraño y dulce

    una mujer extraña es un hombre vestido y bello

    una mujer que piensa es una rana en el fango

    una mujer que singa

    piensa.
  • Nicté Toxquihas quoted4 years ago
    me falta eso que las muchachas llaman habilidades no soy habilidosa pero soy amorosa

    y el amor es señal de sabiduría

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