Bomarzo - Cross, Elsa
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Bomarzo iis a garden of monsters, an Arcadian bower, a fugue state, an invocation, a purgatorial dream. Titled after the site of the sixteenth-century Parco dei Mostri, constructed by the Duke Pier Francesco Orsini in central Italy, Mexican poet Elsa Cross' collection gathers all these connotations under its eerie shadow. A long poem consisting of nineteen numbered sections, each around two pages long, the collection inhabits the structure of an underworld journey narrative. However, the narrative motion is often disrupted by the intrusión of dreams and memories, as well as the plural speaker's deliberate attempt to "divert [ ] the conversation."…mehr

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Bomarzo iis a garden of monsters, an Arcadian bower, a fugue state, an invocation, a purgatorial dream. Titled after the site of the sixteenth-century Parco dei Mostri, constructed by the Duke Pier Francesco Orsini in central Italy, Mexican poet Elsa Cross' collection gathers all these connotations under its eerie shadow. A long poem consisting of nineteen numbered sections, each around two pages long, the collection inhabits the structure of an underworld journey narrative. However, the narrative motion is often disrupted by the intrusión of dreams and memories, as well as the plural speaker's deliberate attempt to "divert [ ] the conversation."
Autorenporträt
Elsa Cross (Mexico City, 1946) Poet, essayist, and translator. In Mexico, she has received the National Prize for Arts and Literature (2016), the International Alfonso Reyes Prize (2023), among many other awards both national and international. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from UNAM, where she is a full professor of Philosophy of Religion. She has also published books of essays, poetry translations and the extensive compilation El Lejano Oriente en la poesía mexicana (2022). Among her most recent poetry collections are Insomnio (2016), Nepantla (2019) and Isla Negra (2023).