El cielo de abajo

The sky below offers an alternative map of Spanish-American female poetry in an effort to rethink the notion of body-object that has been traditionally assigned to it, placing physicality as a determining place for the production of meaning. María Alcantarilla travels a very unique itinerary made up of thirteen authors who, in almost all of them, had until now remained in a kind of limbo with respect to the established canon, and whose publishing fortune significantly hindered general access to their works. Such is the case of the Venezuelan Hanni Ossott, the Uruguayan Tatiana Oroño, the Bolivian Blanca Wiethüchter, the Panamanian Diana Morán, the Ecuadorian Ileana Espinel or the Mexican Esther Seligson, among others, whose voices, from the aesthetic and expressive individuality that characterizes them , are threaded throughout these pages through the same warp thread that opposes the logical discourse of reason to the organic song of poetic intuition. The selection, complemented by the anthologist's photographs, thus seeks to recover the role of women as legitimate poetic interlocutors and to overcome that ancestral misogyny that for centuries has silenced their imaginary, restoring the polyhedral mirror of contemporary Latin American poetry written from and through. of the body.