Award-winning poet Gabriela Franco interviews Pizarnik, Gruss and Bellessi in “Por las ramas”

“If no one asks, I know; but If I want to explain it, I don’t know: these words of Saint Augustin can also be attributed to poetry. Like time, poetry seems to escape any attempt at definition. It is not easy to fix its nature, to determine its limits”, writes the Argentine poet Gabriela Franco in the anthology Stornis. bustle of the rosebushpublished by Eudeba on the occasion of the festival Poetry already!

In 2022, Franco received the first Storni Poetry Prize for his book by branches with a jury composed of Susana Villalba, Mario Ortiz there Elena Hannibali and a prize of 250 thousand pesos.

Of her award-winning collection of poems, the author said: “by branches brings together fifty short poems that study the form of dialogue and the want to say. Dialogue, understood above all as this inner conversation that we have with others based on what has been discussed and read, and from which often emerges what stimulates and animates poetic creation. The two movements, back and forth, towards tradition and towards his own writing, are not linear, but grow, zigzag, taking advantage of each knot to bring out a new direction, a new verse”.

The writer recognized the influence of the poet Irene Gruss at time of writing by branches: “The first poems in this book appeared in December 2020, just when we were working with edward milleo in Gruss’ Complete Poetry Edition. This criticism of his poetry was the origin of this book and that is why for some time I called it Dialogues with Irene”. Also, in the process, the voices of poets such as Alejandra Pizarnik, Diana Bellessi, Mirtha Rosenberg there Susana Villalba.

— Take the refusal

contradict. put before no

It’s the longest way, the detour.

Make sure you don’t leave

along the straight path. Strength

thought, diction to be

happiness and movement, running

common, unexpected

-Call things

by name? As if

the distance was river and not

you must say what you can, have

what you have, the

bad words? The truth?

half the truth

extent? go wild for

measure

“This was written by someone else.” No

another nor a third, a

second, a person in

doubt. Breaking trust, throwing away

a grenade. something to move

the foundations explode. A slice :

something said and, well looked

(or in line of sight), follow

while speaking. said and said

different things. a stone, a

hire

“There is not one thing for another, but

the thing itself. the ashes now

It’s not a difference, it’s

the event. Stone

in its minimal expression. There

repeat, polite

Until exhaustion. Remains

what did they say there was

heat

-The life that goes

let go of your hand Delivery

his regret without calculation. in the balance,

the house and the books, the papers

yellow. The volume is not

his thing. weight leans

for fault

Born in 1970 in Buenos Aires.

She is a poet, teacher and literary editor

Coordinates the magazine En route vers Puan, of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters.

He published collections of poems like those who will die there ways to go.

He won the 2022 Storni Poetry Prize.

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