Myriam Moscona

Myriam Moscona (מירים מוסקונה) (born 1955 Mexico City) is a Mexican journalist, translator and poet in Ladino and Spanish languages who comes from a Bulgarian Sephardi Jewish family.^[1] She teaches at Miami University.^[2] She was the artist in-residence from the Banff Centre for the Arts in 2000.

Poem

Rectas son las curvas de Moebius/En torcedumbre y doloridos/Con esas cintas nos krearon

• LA CINTA DE MOEBIUS

Moebius' curves are straight/Within twisting and sorrow/We were created with these ribbons

• MOEBIUS RIBBON

Awards

• 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship
• 1998 Aguascalientes National Poetry Award, for Las visitantes.

Works

• "Instructivo para descifrar un mal", IMER

Books

• Último jardín El Tucán de Virginia, 1983
• Las visitantes (1989, Premio Nacional de Poesía de Aguascalientes)
• Las preguntas de Natalia Illustrator Fernando Medina, CIDCLI, 1991, ISBN 9789684940499; CIDCLI, 1997, ISBN 9789684940499
• El árbol de los nombres Secretaría de Cultura, Gobierno de Jalisco, 1992, ISBN 9789706240002
• De frente y de perfil: Semblanzas de poetas Ciudad de México, DDF, 1994
• Vísperas Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1996, ISBN 9789681650858
• Negro marfil Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2000; Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, 2006
• El que nada, Ediciones Era, 2006, ISBN 9789684116719
• En la superficie azul, Costa Rica 2008.

Anthologies

• "Excerpt from Black Ivory", The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology, Editors Cecilia Vicuña, Ernesto Livon-Grosman, Oxford University Press US, 2009,ISBN 9780195124545
• The River Is Wide/el Rio Es Ancho: Twenty Mexican Poets, Editor Marlon L. Fick, Translator Marlon L. Fick, UNM Press, 2005, ISBN 9780826334381

Review

Ivory Black's edition was made by Sandra Lorenzano, rector of the UCSJ, with a foreword by the Chilean writer Soledad Bianchi. Se trata de un poema de largo aliento, una suma de fragmentos que construyen el conjunto" de versos que, en algunos tramos, se pueden leer de diversas maneras: de izquierda a derecha, de derecha a izquierda, de arriba hacia abajo y viceversa. It is a long-winded poem,a sum of fragments that make up the whole "of verses which, in some sections, can be read in different ways: from left to right, right to left, top to bottom and vice versa.^[3]

References

1. ^ http://literature.ucsd.edu/news/currentevents/writingseries.html
2. ^ http://www.units.muohio.edu/english/events/trans_cult_bios.html
3. ^ http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2006/12/13/index.php?section=cultura&article=a11n1cul

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