Contemporary Colombian poetry: poems by Orietta Lozano translated

Abstract

Orietta Lozano was born in Cali, Colombia, in 1956, where she lives today. She is a poet, essayist and novelist and presents an expressive poetic production that began in the 1980s. However, despite having composed several national and international anthologies, one of them being Brazilian, organized by the poet Lucila Nogueira and Floriano Martins (2007), the work de Lozano is still very little widespread in Brazil, being best known in Colombia and Mexico, although there are translations of poems also into English, French and Italian. The poems presented and translated here, “Danza” and “Despojada”, make up the author's second publication, “Memoria de los Espejos”, from 1983, and can be considered good representatives of Orietta Lozano's poetics, as they reveal images that evoke a sensitive force of the elements, a language full of a transgressive desire based on a mythical time, a mystical game.