Peruvian Poetry Translations
|
Blanca actually belongs to the previous generation of poets, but she was closely involved with the poets emerging in the 1960-70s as a linchpin of the Lima intelligentia. She represented Mexico's publishing house Fondo de Cultura Económica whose office was compulsory waysation in Lima's literary laberynth. She mixed it up with Latin American intellectuals, including Octavio Paz, Ernesto Cardenal and Julio Cortazar. She was married for a time with Peruvian painter, Fernando de Szyzlo.
Blanca was actually the first poet to help me. She was especially encouraging about my own writing, especially a poem called Solar Plexus. Biography and three poems