Saturday, August 18, 2007

I Have Graves Disease Can I Join The Military

A reading / performance at the Tijuana Cultural Center (Tj)


Congratulations to the author and thanks to everyone s for your assistance!

Brief excerpts of the texts, April Castro and Amaranta Caballero about the book.
April Castro:

"[...]
Language is a bullet.

first Bala .
Reading this book is to witness how to load a gun and get that burden. Composed

June 6 bullet-points, the exact reverse of the text compiles the work of more than two years of experimentation poetic Margarita, time that swirls in the topics that drill: the language, the act of writing, women and violence. In this first paragraph, the poem itself is a bullet that penetrates the body of the reader and writer. Somehow the poetics of embodied looking Sayaka, I mean by this that their texts are trying to find a body to incarnate a woman's body from which to write. [...]

Fifth bullet.

The unmentionable. The letter F. The femme fatal. The Fakir.

would be foolish to talk about this book feminism without explicit mention of some of these poems. I can say that feminism is the needle that weaves the majority of them.

From its inception until today, thanks to its critics, feminism became the new word is forbidden - in politics, art, everyday life. Being openly feminist seems an act of self-disparagement, suicide. However for Sayaka, being a feminist is a consistency of gender, an unequivocal sign of common sense. An obligation. Thus the exact reverse of the text is also the result of his inquiry about the new feminism and the ways to live them (with, for and through creation). [...]"



Amaranta Caballero:


"[...] I analyze and reflect. I browse these pages and recognize them. Have found a place. The journey of these texts, the multiple experiences and continuities that were to happen to be located here today, side by side. Marked by a page number. The experience of Margarita Valencia Triana through this meeting reveals intense poems. Talk about sharp thinking. Talk about smart thinking. [...]

Current concerns of the author focused a generic theme. Abound on changes and dissociation. Made and question. Make a poetic philosophical basis. Want to transgress. [...]"


Sunday, August 12, 2007

Camila Rodrigues Boneca

Next reading: CECUT, Tijuana, August 16, 2007


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