POEMAS DE LA IZQUIERDA EROTICA
Inscribed first printing of the great Guatemalan intellectual's first book of poetry.
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Price: $400.00
POEMAS DE LA IZQUIERDA EROTICA
"Have you seen the movie Alien? Do you remember that scene when an alien comes out of a guy's chest? That's how it was. One day, poetry simply came out of me." (Rodas, interviewed in Asymptote)
A scarce copy of Rodas's trailblazing first poetry collection, written in the first phase of the long and turbulent Guatemalan Civil War and emerging from the author's early feminist consciousness, like — in the poet's own explicit comparison — ALIEN's chestbursting xenomorph erupting from its startled host: "They came out in a burst—all but one, the first one. I put them aside. I read them days later and realized they weren't bad. They were quite good, actually... At the time I called those poems Después de todo yo también puedo ser feminista — I can be a feminist, after all. Then I took those poems, plus one more I had written, to Don Ricardo Juárez Aragón's printing house, on 18th Street. And that's how Poemas de la izquierda erótica came to be." Rodas, witness to the persecution and death of many colleagues and friends, never went into exile from Guatemala, working as a journalist through years of political repression and amassing a host of literary awards and honors, culminating in her receipt of the Guatemala National Prize in Literature in 2000 and her service as Minister of Culture in 2015-16.
Read more: José García Escobar, "Guatemala has always produced great writers": An Interview with Guatemalan Poet Ana María Rodas, Asymptote magazine.
The Object
First edition. [Guatemala City]: Testimonio del absurdo diario, (1973). 7.5'' x 7.5''. Original red pictorial wrappers. Cover and interior drawings by Ramirez Amaya. Red tissue guard facing page 13. Errata leaf bound in. 92, [2] pages. Inscribed by Rodas on title page. Moderate foxing to cover flaps and versos. Small stain to lower edge of last leaf.
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