Poesía completa

Here is the complete Poetry of Cristina Peri Rossi, the 2021 Cervantes Prize, of great projection both in Europe and in Latin America. Since her first book, Evohé, published fifty years ago with great scandal, her poetry, lyrical, erotic, critical, subversive, sonorous, with an emphasis on women as objects of desire, expresses the contemporary drives and contradictions of her. Language becomes a weapon charged with the future, but also with desire, criticism and beauty: paintings, cinema, music (from Mina to Chopin) combine to catch the moment, beautiful but fugitive. "God is asleep and stammers in dreams", says the poet, "we are the words of that confused God". If something characterizes this Complete Poetry, it is that there are no first-time poems to skip because seduction, irony, derision, beauty and ugliness are there to move us, make us smile or shut up, admired. Transgressive, lucid and rebellious, Cristina Peri Rossi takes refuge in words: she contemplates them, tries them, loves them, argues with them, is disappointed, leaves them and remembers them; she writes out of love for them as if they were women who pass by, but remain in "my house is writing", the title of one of her poems. A house on fire.