Plaza de abastos

After including in its catalog La espalda de la violinista, the first installment of Teresa Gómez, Vandalia recovers in a complete edition the poems that were part of a book never before published, with which the Granada-born author joined the poetics of the Otra Sentimentalidad. Written between 1980 and 1985, the poems in Plaza de abastos make up, as her generation companion, Ángeles Mora, defines it in the prologue, a luminous, seductive book that assumed the postulates of the current from a specifically feminine perspective, combined in a very personal way with ways and images of surreal affiliation. The edition is completed with an emotional presentation of who was the main theorist of the school, Juan Carlos Rodríguez. Plaza de abastos is a collection of poems that confronts the past to interrogate and reconstruct it, questioning one by one the words that name the heritage with which a young woman faces life. Teresa Gómez undertakes a process of analysis characterized by tenderness as resistance, in a world-market where everything is bought and everything is sold. A search for poetic forms capable of naming that other way of thinking and feeling that no longer accepts the dichotomy of reason and feeling. Four decades later, the author's poems survive as the testimony of a determining adventure in recent literary history and remain as fresh and inciting as then, in their dual sentimental and reflective aspects.