{"id":2890,"date":"2009-06-19T07:00:14","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T07:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poeticas.es\/?p=2890"},"modified":"2017-09-06T15:43:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T13:43:51","slug":"margaret-atwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticas.es\/?p=2890","title":{"rendered":"Margaret Atwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2891\" title=\"Calisto, de Tony Scherman\" src=\"https:\/\/poeticas.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/margaretatwood.jpg\" alt=\"Calisto, de Tony Scherman\" width=\"321\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poeticas.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/margaretatwood.jpg 401w, https:\/\/poeticas.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/margaretatwood-250x300.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>La poes\u00eda de Margaret Atwood (Canad\u00e1, 1939) comparte con su obra narrativa y ensay\u00edstica el inter\u00e9s por los mitos culturales y literarios, los derechos humanos, el papel de la mujer en la sociedad y los problemas medioambientales. Su lengua po\u00e9tica se caracteriza por la contenci\u00f3n ret\u00f3rica, el ritmo cuidado y el uso de la paradoja.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>LAS PALABRAS SIGUEN SU VIAJE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00bfSufren en realidad los poetas m\u00e1s<br \/>\nque otra gente? \u00bfNo es s\u00f3lo<br \/>\nque a ellos les toman fotos<br \/>\ny se les ve hacerlo?<br \/>\nLos manicomios est\u00e1n llenos de aquellos<br \/>\nque nunca escribieron un poema.<br \/>\nLa mayor\u00eda de los suicidas no son<br \/>\npoetas: una buena estad\u00edstica.<\/p>\n<p>Algunos d\u00edas sin embargo quiero, todav\u00eda,<br \/>\nser como otra gente;<br \/>\npero entonces voy y hablo con ellos,<br \/>\nesa gente que se supone que son<br \/>\ndistintos, y se parecen mucho a nosotros,<br \/>\nexcepto que carecen de esa cosa<br \/>\nque pensamos que es una voz.<br \/>\nNos decimos entre nosotros que ellos son m\u00e1s d\u00e9biles<br \/>\nque nosotros, menos definidos,<br \/>\nque ellos son lo que nosotros definimos,<br \/>\nque les estamos haciendo un servicio,<br \/>\nque nos hace sentir mejor.<br \/>\nEllos son menos elegantes en el dolor que nosotros.<\/p>\n<p>Pero mira, dije nosotros. Aunque pueda odiar tus tripas<br \/>\nindividualmente, y nunca quiera verte,<br \/>\naunque prefiera pasar el rato<br \/>\ncon dentistas, porque aprendo m\u00e1s,<br \/>\nhabl\u00e9 de nosotros en plural, nos un\u00ed<br \/>\ncomo los miembros de alguna caravana de la muerte<br \/>\nque es como nos veo, viajando juntos,<br \/>\nlas mujeres con velo y de una en una, con esa mirada<br \/>\nhacia adentro y los ojos desviados,<br \/>\nlos hombres en grupo, con sus bigotes<br \/>\ny pasatiempos y baladronadas<\/p>\n<p>en el lugar al que estamos pegados, el lugar que hemos escogido,<br \/>\nun peregrinaje que tom\u00f3 un rumbo equivocado<br \/>\nen alguna parte hace mucho y termin\u00f3<br \/>\naqu\u00ed, a plena luz<br \/>\ndel sol, y las sombras duras rojinegras<br \/>\ndesplegadas por cada piedra, cada \u00e1rbol muerto misterioso<br \/>\nen sus particularidades, su doble gravedad, pero flotando<br \/>\ntambi\u00e9n en la aureola de piedra, de \u00e1rbol,<\/p>\n<p>y no estamos m\u00e1s malditos en realidad que nadie, mientras vamos<br \/>\njuntos a trav\u00e9s de este terreno lunar<br \/>\ndonde todo est\u00e1 seco y agoniza y est\u00e1<br \/>\ntan vivo, hacia las dunas, desvaneci\u00e9ndonos fuera de campo,<br \/>\ndesvaneci\u00e9ndonos fuera de la vista de los dem\u00e1s,<br \/>\ndesvaneci\u00e9ndonos incluso fuera de nuestra propia vista,<br \/>\nbuscamos agua.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Luna nueva<\/em>, 1984. Traducci\u00f3n de Luis Marig\u00f3mez.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>THE WORDS CONTINUE THEIR JOURNEY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Do poets really suffer more<br \/>\nthan other people? Isn&#8217;t it only<br \/>\nthat they get their pictures taken<br \/>\nand are seen to do it?<br \/>\nThe loony bins are full of those<br \/>\nwho never wrote a poem.<br \/>\nMost suicides are not<br \/>\npoets: a good statistic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Some days though I want, still,<br \/>\nto be like other people;<br \/>\nbut then I go and talk with them,<br \/>\nthese people who are supposed to be<br \/>\nother, and they are much like us,<br \/>\nexcept that they lack the sort of thing<br \/>\nwe think of as a voice.<br \/>\nWe tell ourselves they are fainter<br \/>\nthan we are, less defined,<br \/>\nthat they are what we are defining,<br \/>\nthat we are doing them a favor,<br \/>\nwhich makes us feel better.<br \/>\nThey are less elegant about pain than we are.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">But look, I said us. Though I may hate your guts<br \/>\nindividually, and want never to see you,<br \/>\nthough I prefer to spend my time<br \/>\nwith dentists because I learn more,<br \/>\nI spoke of us as we, I gathered us<br \/>\nlike the members of some doomed caravan<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">which is how I see us, traveling together,<br \/>\nthe women veiled and singly, with that inturned<br \/>\nsight and the eyes averted,<br \/>\nthe men in groups, with their moustaches<br \/>\nand passwords and bravado<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">in the place we&#8217;re stuck in, the place we&#8217;ve chosen,<br \/>\na pilgrimage that took a wrong turn<br \/>\nsomewhere far back and ended<br \/>\nhere, in the full glare<br \/>\nof the sun, and the hard red-black shadows<br \/>\ncast by each stone, each dead tree lurid<br \/>\nin its particulars, its doubled gravity, but floating<br \/>\ntoo in the aureole of stone, of tree,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">and we&#8217;re no more doomed really than anyone, as we go<br \/>\ntogether, through this moon terrain<br \/>\nwhere everything is dry and perishing and so<br \/>\nvivid, into the dunes, vanishing out of sight,<br \/>\nvanishing out of the sight of each other,<br \/>\nvanishing even out of our own sight,<br \/>\nlooking for water.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em>Interlunar<\/em>, 1984.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La poes\u00eda de Margaret Atwood (Canad\u00e1, 1939) comparte con su obra narrativa y ensay\u00edstica el inter\u00e9s por los mitos culturales y literarios, los derechos humanos, el papel de la mujer en la sociedad y los problemas medioambientales. 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