Amparo Osorio

The adventure of reading Amparo Osorio’s poetry begins with the wind sculpting faces while a “you” (simultaneously representing the psychoanalytic you, the masks of the ego and the vocative second person) observes the grass and ignores the traces of “all eternity”. “Outside of you there are no roots possible”, the voice states before posing the question that not only concludes the first poem but which will become the leitmotiv of this collection from which surges – like sparks springing up from the forgery of existence – remnants of childhood, reflections on origin, longings to identify oneself with fleeting time, reunions with loved ones and memories of annihilated gods. And all of this conveyed in a sorrowful tone but without complaints; with bitterness but without lamentation.

Hers are not exclusively literary texts; they also convey the voice of a woman facing the vicissitudes of human affairs: a fine voice, a poetical voice, capable of approaching and penetrating the dark side of existence, astounding us with its findings. Poetry

Huracanes de sueños, Ediciones la Catedral, Bogotá, 1983
Gota ebria, Ediciones Embalaje, Museo, Rayo, Roldanillo, Valle, 1987
Territorio de máscaras, Hojas Sueltas, Bogotá, 1990
Migración de la ceniza, Cooperativa Editorial Magisterio, Bogotá, 1998
Antología esencial, Colección Los Conjurados, Bogotá, 2001
Memoria absuelta, Colección Viernes de Poesía, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, 2004

Links
Amparo Osorio’s blog
In Spanish 

Arte Poética
Short biography and poems in Spanish

Web Letralia
Biography, poems and article in Spanish

Magazine La Otra
Article by Amparo Osorio, ‘Cartas del Verano de 1926’ in Spanish

Online journal Con-Fabulación
Articles by Amparo Osorio in Spanish

Jornal de poesía
Poems, biography and short interview in Spanish