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CUATRO GOTAS (POESÍA)
Si pudiéramos cambiar de rostro descubriríamos que las arrugas nos han seguido, que nuestros enemigos nos han descubierto. Seguimos siendo la diana. Si desviáramos la mirada el arco sería invisible, nosotros no.
- GenresPoetry
190 pages, Paperback
Published May 1, 2003
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About the author
Dulce Chacón
17 books107 followersDulce Chacón Gutiérrez (Zafra, Badajoz, Spain, June 6, 1954 – Madrid, December 3, 2003) was a Spanish poet, novelist and playwright.
Born into a traditional family in the Extremadura region of Spain, her family moved to Madrid on her father's' death, when she was 12 years old.
In spite of growing up in a conservative family, Dulce Chacón soon became a progressive person, due to the victims caused by the Spanish dictatorship. Her motto towards this issue was “neither bitterness nor oblivion”.
She started writing at an early age even though she did not publish until 1992 when her first book of poetry, Querrán ponerle nombre, appeared. Two more books of poetry then followed: Las palabras de la piedra and Contra el desprestigio de la altura, in 1993 and 1995 respectively. The latter made her win her first award, the Ciudad de Irún Prize. In 1996 she published her first novel, Algún amor que no mate, which talks about a women abused by her husband. José Saramago described it as “harsh but necessary”.
Consequently, she involved herself in various progressive social and political activities. Her novel La voz dormida (spanish title for The sleeping voice), which gathers some testimonies of women who took part in the republican side during the Spanish Civil War, attracted widespread acclaim. In regards to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Chacón joined a cultural movement against war. There she went along to read aloud, alongside Nobel prize winner José Saramago, the anti-war manifesto at the 15 March 2003 mass demonstration in Madrid against the war. She was also a member of an association for women against gender-based violence.
Her husband, Miguel Ángel Alcántara, would define her as a determined, leftist, agnostic woman, whose best weapons were words and writing.
She died suddenly in Madrid in December 2003 of cancer
Born into a traditional family in the Extremadura region of Spain, her family moved to Madrid on her father's' death, when she was 12 years old.
In spite of growing up in a conservative family, Dulce Chacón soon became a progressive person, due to the victims caused by the Spanish dictatorship. Her motto towards this issue was “neither bitterness nor oblivion”.
She started writing at an early age even though she did not publish until 1992 when her first book of poetry, Querrán ponerle nombre, appeared. Two more books of poetry then followed: Las palabras de la piedra and Contra el desprestigio de la altura, in 1993 and 1995 respectively. The latter made her win her first award, the Ciudad de Irún Prize. In 1996 she published her first novel, Algún amor que no mate, which talks about a women abused by her husband. José Saramago described it as “harsh but necessary”.
Consequently, she involved herself in various progressive social and political activities. Her novel La voz dormida (spanish title for The sleeping voice), which gathers some testimonies of women who took part in the republican side during the Spanish Civil War, attracted widespread acclaim. In regards to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Chacón joined a cultural movement against war. There she went along to read aloud, alongside Nobel prize winner José Saramago, the anti-war manifesto at the 15 March 2003 mass demonstration in Madrid against the war. She was also a member of an association for women against gender-based violence.
Her husband, Miguel Ángel Alcántara, would define her as a determined, leftist, agnostic woman, whose best weapons were words and writing.
She died suddenly in Madrid in December 2003 of cancer
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February 2, 2024
Preguntaos
si no es mejor abrir los brazos
y hacer que el cuerpo se adelante. ❤️🔥
______
La rama no teme
la amenaza del hacha.
Quebrarse ha de ser
conocer la tierra.
______
Este poemario ha tenido sus altibajos:
me encantaba,
apenas lo entendía,
creía remontar
hasta que su final ha sido digno.
si no es mejor abrir los brazos
y hacer que el cuerpo se adelante. ❤️🔥
______
La rama no teme
la amenaza del hacha.
Quebrarse ha de ser
conocer la tierra.
______
Este poemario ha tenido sus altibajos:
me encantaba,
apenas lo entendía,
creía remontar
hasta que su final ha sido digno.
April 17, 2019
Muy feliz de haber leído este poemario, con algunos poemas que no he entendido del todo, otros que me han parecido muy meh y otros que me han parecido increíbles.
«Cuando te asomes
y te dejes caer
por el borde de tu herida,
te verás,
desde arriba no,
desde lo hondo.
Y te verás
partido en dos
y entero,
y sin que sepas cómo».
«Cuando te asomes
y te dejes caer
por el borde de tu herida,
te verás,
desde arriba no,
desde lo hondo.
Y te verás
partido en dos
y entero,
y sin que sepas cómo».
February 10, 2024
"Cuatro gotas" engloba los cuatro poemarios que Dulce Chacón publicó. La poesía es un género que no suelo leer. En este caso me atrajo la autora, de la que he leído dos de sus novelas ("La voz dormida" y "Cielos de barro"), que me parecen excelentes. No puedo decir que haya captado todo lo que la autora pretendía transmitir con cada una de sus poesías, pero me han gustado, algunas mucho, otras sentía que se me escapaban... Mi consejo: para leer tranquilamente, en voz alta, repitiendo y saboreando cada verso.
April 6, 2024
La verdad, este ha sido el primer libro de Dulce Chacón que he leído y creo que debería haber empezado por su narrativa... No he sentido mucha cosa
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