"Publicado con motivo de la exposición "Alcira Soust Scaffo: Escribir poesía ¿vivir dónde? (11 de agosto al 25 de noviembre de 2018) MUAC-Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, UNAM, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México"--Page opposite title page. Catalog of an exhibition held at MUAC, August 11-November 25, 2018. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Alcira Soust Scaffo : escribir poesía, ¿vivir dónde? / Amanda de la Garza -- "Malgré tout" [¡A pesar de todo!] Vida y práctica de la poeta Alcira Soust Scaffo / Antonio Santos -- Ser una práctica. Poesía en armas / Cuahtémoc Medina -- Poesía en armas / Alcira Soust Scaffo -- La niña loba. Poemas, notas y obra gráfica (1958-1991) / Alcira Soust Scaffo -- Las noches blancas de Alcira Soust Scaffo. Entrevista a Carlos Landeros / Amanda de la Garza Mata -- Alcira Soust Scaffo, la deshabitada / Bárbara Jacobs -- Jardín cerrado / Elsa Cross -- Semblanza -- Catálogo.
Summary:
Based on extensive documentary research and the recovery of part of her personal archive (action poems, translations of French poetry and graphic poems) and a set of testimonies, the catalog emphasizes the relationship between the political militancy and visual poetry of the remarkable poet and activist Alcira Soust Scaffo (Uruguay 1924-1997), who lived in Mexico between 1950 and 1980, when she returned to Uruguay. "Alcira Soust was a muse and mythical figure for several generations of young people, activists and artists in the 1960's, 1970's and 1980's. Roberto Bolaño, a personal friend of the poet and who belonged to the avant-garde group the Infrarrealists, established the myth about Alcira in two of his novels, The Savage Detectives and Amulet, the latter being dedicated to her." (HKB Translation) --Page 239. However, the catalog does not seek to inquire into the myth, but instead reconstructs the worlds of Soust, along with her artistic, political, Latin American and anti-imperialist ideology, and the way in which these intermingled with her personal life. Source other than Library of Congress.
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