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Alicia García Bergua

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Alicia García Bergua, born in Mexico City on September 9, 1954, is a poet, essayist, and science educator. She is the author of the poetry books Fatigarse entre fantasmas (Ediciones Toledo, 1991), La anchura de la calle (Conaculta, Práctica Mortal collection, 1996), Una naranja en medio de la tarde (Libros del Umbral/Pablo Boullosa, 2005), Tramas (Cálamos-INBA-Conaculta, 2007), El libro de Carlos (Juan Malasuerte, 2007), Ser y seguir siendo (Textofilia, 2013), Los zapatos en círculo (brief anthology from the Universidad de Guadalajara, 2020), and Canciones en voz baja (Ediciones Bon Art/UACM, 2021), along with the books of essays Inmersiones (Dirección General de Publicaciones, UNAM, 2009) and La lucha con la zozobra: La Libertad bajo palabra en los poetas Xavier Villaurrutia, Gilberto Owen, Jorge Cuesta y Octavio Paz (Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, 2022). In June of 2024, she shared her poems as part of the Sea of Shadows/Mar de sombras exhibition at the Instituto Cervantes in Manchester, England; the translated poems published here were prepared for this occasion.

“My childhood was spent in two buildings” and other poems

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September 23, 2024
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