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Dossier: Colombian Poetry

They say the last flame

  • by Tania Ganitsky

They say the last flame
will ignite
in the ocean.
In the belly of the whale
that houses the forgotten myths,
in its song,
conjuring the return of the gods.
But I stored away
some matches
to safeguard the flames
of the earth.

Translated by Martín Schauss

 

  • Tania Ganitsky

Tania Ganitsky (Bogota, Colombia, 1986) studied Literature and Philosophy on a graduate level. She has won two national poetry awards in Colombia, one in 2009 and the other in 2014. Her poems have been included in several journals, magazines and anthologies in Latin America and Spain. Dos cuerpos menos, her first collection of poetry, was published in 2015. She is currently finishing a PhD in Philosophy and Literature at The University of Warwick.

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