What are the words you do not yet have?, “what are you afraid of” asked the poet and activist Audre Lorde. This books asks these questions, and attempts to find these words as a way to overcome the multiple silences of one’s inheritance. From the image of the fish and their extension in the sky -the birds-, from the water and air of the poem, the words not yet possessed are given birth. This book believes in the capacity of language to speak about what burdens us and conflicts us, and wants to explore these knowing that even the fish can get thirsty, and that abundance can also be an extreme form of absence.
About the Author: Silvia Goldman
Silvia Goldman is from Uruguay and has lived in the United States since 2001. Her first book of poetry, Cinco movimientos del llanto, was published in 2008 by Ediciones de Hermes Criollo. A section of this book was translated by Charlotte Whittle and published in 2016 by Cardboardhouse Press under the title No one rises indifferent to sorrow. De los peces la sed, her most recent book, was published in 2018 by Pandora Lobo Estepario Press. Her unpublished manuscript, miedo, was a finalist for the VI Premio Internacional de poesía “Pilar Fernández Labrador”. She has two other manuscripts: árbol y otras ansiedades, and matar al padre. Her poems and academic articles have been included in various literary journals and anthologies in Latin America, the U.S., and Europe. She holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from Brown University and teaches at DePaul University.
REVIEWS: "...lo que vemos claro -y es lo que realmente importa- es el trabajo de lenguaje de Goldman desplazando conceptos en una suerte de rueda aleatoria de palabras que se buscan unas a otras; característica ésta de la nueva poesía latinoamericana de hoy, constelación de la que Silvia Goldman se convierte con "De los peces la sed" en uno de sus más importantes referentes hoy por hoy" (Róger Santiváñez, "Cuadrivium" 13 año 20) "'Poesía vertical', llama a ésta Sarli Mercado con acierto, dado el precipitado verbal que acarrea un mundo discernido por su flujo trágico y vulnerado. A la pregunta de si se puede escribir poesía después de Auschwitz, la poeta asume que no es posible elegir porque el campo mismo se abre en el lenguaje con su tinta de 'leche negra'. (Julio Ortega, "Las voces a ellas debidas", "Periódico de poesía de la UNAM", periodicodepoesia.unam.mx). REVIEWS: Róger Santiváñez -Cuadrivium Julio Ortega - Periódico de poesía y Revista La otra Ethel Barja- Revista Exégesis de pronta publicación
