Poet
Tallulah Flores
Tallulah Flores
(Colombia, 1951)
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Biography
Flores was born in Barranquilla in northern Colombia but completed her studies in linguistics in Romania. She has dedicated most of her life to holding a chair in Social Communications and Journalism at the Universidad del Norte, and to the teaching of literature and film analysis in the Unión Hebrew School. She has published three books of poems to great critical acclaim. Her poems have been translated into Romanian and Hungarian, and in 2003 she was awarded the Great International Poetry Prize of the Curtea de Arges, Romania.
In her third book, Cinematográfica (Cinematographic), the eponymous poem is divided into eleven sections and the author writes in the prologue: “Gone over, the line described by the poem is not straight but circular. The title of the poem is an unequivocal informant telling us that what is related, described and thought out in it, is a fiction. The sign of History and of all our daily personal stories is unreality.”
Her last book, Nombrar las cosas (To Name Things), which will be published next year, already has the backing of important critics such as the Cuban, Rufo Caballero, who wrote that Flores is “…one of the singular voices of contemporary Latin American poetry… her grammar is perfect and subtle, her syntax symmetrical, and the sensuousness of composition allows me to say that the poet has reached maturity in her interior rhyme. In her verse there is a dense, expectant, subtle violence… her sensitive feeling for drama is akin to the births of the world the impressive Cuban poet Dulce María Loynaz assisted at.”
© M.I. (Translated by Nicolás Suescún)
BibliographyPoesía para armar (Poetry to be Assembled), Plaza y Janés, Bogotá, 1986
Voces del tiempo (Voices of Time), Ediciones Luna Hiena, Bogotá, 1993
Cinematográfica (Cinematographic), Instituto Distrital de Cultura, Barranquilla, 1997
Poems
Poems of Tallulah Flores
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