I Am Not That Body - González Arredondo, Verónica

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Résumé :
Through poems about femicide, immigration, extinction and survival, disappearing landscapes, displaced peoples, and the inhospitable climates (geographically and metaphorically) that remain in their wake, Ver?nica Gonz?lez Arredondo explores the arid desert ecosystems of Mexico with superb side-by-side translations by Allison A. deFreese....

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Ver?nica Gonz?lez Arredondo (Guanajuato, Mexico) holds a PhD in Arts from the Universidad de Guanajuato and a Master's in Philosophy from the Universidad de Zacatecas. She has received several prestigious Latin American literary awards, including Mexico's National Ram?n L?pez Velarde Prize in Poetry/Premio Nacional de Poes?a Ram?n L?pez Velarde, for her book of poems Ese cuerpo no soy/I Am Not That Body (Universidad Aut?noma de Zacatecas, 2015) as well as the Dolores Castro Prize /Premio Dolores Castro, an annual prize awarded to a woman writing exceptional and socially conscious work in Spanish, for her book Verde Fuegos de Esp?ritus/Green Fires of the Spirits (Ayuntamiento de Aguascalientes, 2014). Voracidad, grito y belleza animal/Voraciousness, Screams and Animal Beauty, a book of essays, was also published by Universidad Aut?noma de Zacatecas in 2014. Ver?nica Gonz?lez Arredondo's books of verse have previously been translated into, and published in, French and Portuguese. From 2017-2018 she held a FONCA fellowship for younger artists through the Fondo Nacional para la Culturas y las Artes/National Fund for Arts and Culture. Al aire el cuerpo duele/The Body Pains the Wind, a section in Ver?nica Gonz?lez Arredondo's award-winning second book Ese cuerpo no soy/I Am Not that Body references a line from Dolores Castro's verse....