Exile and feminism, axes linked in Gioconda Belli’s recital at the Ágora of A Coruña

2023-12-04 23:27:00

Andrea Nunes, Gioconda Belli and Yolanda Castaño Marcos Miguez

The recipient of the 2023 Reina Sofía de Poesía Iberoamericana participated together with the Galician Andrea Nunes in the last session of the Poets Di(n)verses of the year

04 dic 2023 . Updated at 10:28 p.m.

«I’m going to set the clock so I don’t go overboard. We poets can stay up all day when we start reading. With these words I presentouse onte at the Ágora da Coruña Gioconda Belli. The award-winning co Queen Sofía of Ibero-American Poetry 2023 she was in charge, along with the Galician Andrea Nunesto close the last session of the year Poetas Di(n)versos cycle. Pieces on feminism, sexual freedom, body diversity, diaspora and exile were the axes that united both writers in this cultural initiative driven by Yolanda Castano. «These last two years of my life have been a journey for me. Since I had to leave Nicaragua to save myself and not be imprisoned. I decided to come to Spain and it was a decision that I do not regret. Exile is very hard, but here I feel good, I think because of the kindness and the possibility of expressing myself. “Spanish becomes the homeland when one is outside of one’s homeland,” Sinalou Belli before starting to read I do not regret anything. «From the woman that I am, sometimes I find myself contemplating those that she could have been: the beautiful, hardworking women, good wives, paragons of virtues, that my mother desired. “I don’t know why I have spent my entire life rebelling against them,” she recited.

The mothers of my daughters, light of my father e expat mother were the following texts to show the strength of this Nicaraguan poet. «I left with the words under my arm. They are my crime. My sin”, Gioconda expressed during the reading of that last poem.

Belli also knew how to pull humor with At night, the wife clarifies. “No. I don’t have Cindy Crawford’s hips. That perfect belly, smooth and slightly concave, with the dazzling navel in the center. I once had it. I once boasted about that region of my anatomy. It was before Camilo was born, before he decided to enter the world on his feet; that the cesarean section left a scar. With Sisyphus e March 8 he said goodbye to the applause of a dedicated audience.