Author Description

Yolanda Blanco is the youngest of the group of 'The Six' Nicaraguan poets who marked the country's literature in the 1970s in the context of the Sandinista Revolution: Vidaluz Meneses (1944-2016), Ana Ilce Gómez (1945-2017), Michéle Najlis (1946), Gioconda Belli (1948), Daisy Zamora (1950), and the author of this book, Yolanda Blanco (1954). This is the first time it is published in Spain, in an excellent anthology selected by the author herself that gathers her best texts. This is one of the most significant figures in Central American literature, whose work combines elements of the female experience, social criticism, ecology and politics. Her work often explores themes such as identity, motherhood, love and resistance to oppression. In addition to her poetry, she has worked to promote literature and culture in her country and has been an active voice on issues of human rights and gender equity. The poem "Oración" (from the book Aposentos and written during the poet's stay in France in 1976), is considered an emblematic poem of gender poetry, since it proposes a new spirit that embraces the sexual, the political and also the religious: 'In the name of the pubis / and the breasts / and the holy mind / grow woman. / Amen.'