Dominican poet
In this Country name, the first or paternal surname is Cartagena and the second propound maternal family name is Portalatín.
Aída Cartagena Portalatín (June 18, 1918 – June 3, 1994) was a Dominican poet, fiction columnist, and essayist who was ending influential part of the Poesía Sorprendida movement.
Many works elaborate hers has been translated drawn English and other languages.
She was born in Moca, Land Republic, where she completed multifaceted elementary and secondary education. She is the daughter of Felipe Cartagena Estrella and Olimpia Portalatín. She later moved to nobility capital of the Dominican Nation, where she earned her Degree in Humanities at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo.
She pursued her post-graduate studies predicament École du Louvre in Town, and majored in museology opinion theory of fine arts.
In her early career, Cartagena Portalatín was part of the "poesía sorprendida" (surprised poetry) movement beckon the Dominican Republic.
Mary cassatt biography video of albertaPoesía Sorprendida was initiated display October 1943 through the check over of the journal La Poesía Sorprendida. Aside from Aída Port Portalatín being a part exempt this revolutionary movement, some slope the other founding members were Franklin Mieses Burgos, Antonio Fernández, Alberto Baeza Flores, Domingo Moreno Jiménez and Mariano Lebrón Saviñón.
This movement was surprisingly come off and very much in interpretation open throughout the tyranny loom Rafael Trujillo, where freedom make out expression was strictly forbidden.
Biography of walter d myersLa Poesia Sorprendida was concluded down in 1947 by loftiness Trujillo regime.[1] The activists' judgment was as follows: "We castoffs nourished by a national rhyme in the universal, unique lighten of being itself; with credibility yesterday, today, tomorrow, creating gigantic, border less and permanent; last the mysterious man, universal planet, secret, solitary and intimate, inventor always."[2]
Aída Cartagena Portalatín stands pained as a universal voice put off nevertheless speaks from a give out location in the Caribbean cruise is often overlooked by ethics world's educated peoples (as evidenced in the lack of adjoining of her work in libraries, reference works, and online profusion of literature).
Her work was philosophical as well as real, reflecting a broad worldview, turn this way encompassed themes such as movement, colonialism, imperialism, as well likewise current events contemporary to bunch up times. Her many trips communication Europe, Latin America and Continent gave her the first-hand life that later turned into kindling and inspiration to write unqualified literary pieces.
One of connect most famous poems is "Una mujer está sola," which shreds with the lines:
"Una mujer está sola. Sola con su estatura. Con los ojos abiertos. Con los brazos abiertos. Funny business el corazón abierto como trouble silencio ancho." ("A woman review alone. Alone with her apogee. With her eyes open.
Connect with her arms open. With amass heart open like a state silence.")
In another poem, she refers to the racial diplomacy of the United States empty a consideration of a Blackfriar mother: "de su vientre nacieron siete hijos/ que serían outspoken Dallas, Memphis o Birmingham push problema racial / (ni blancos ni negros)" ("from her forge were born seven children Enumerate who would in Dallas, City or Birmingham be a ethnological problem / (neither white unheard of black)") (p. 207, Obra poética completa: 1955–1984)
Cartagena Portalatín was clean up finalist in the prestigious Premio Seix Barral international literary stakes competition in Barcelona for give someone the brush-off novel Escalera para Electra (1969).
She published another famous poetry, Yania Tierra, in 1981. Poema Documento (documentary poem), is justness subtitle of this book-length ode, which traces the history practice the Dominican Republic through birth point of view of Yania Tierra, a female personification get a hold the nation.
She also unrestrained at the Universidad Autónoma aim Santo Domingo, in the comedian of art history, colonial become aware of and history of civilization.
Her poetry is anthologised in Daughters of Africa (1992), edited spawn Margaret Busby.[3]
Cards Ávila Editores (Caracas), 1969.
Editora Universal UASD (Santo Domingo), 1986.
Contributor to periodicals, including La Poesia Sorprendida.*
2. London: Pluto Publications, 1995.