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SANTOS SILVIA MARIA MANZINI



for you What is poetry?

One way to breathe, to live, you survive the pain, the daily slaughter, a form of happiness
language A way of knowing, a way to capture the elusive given the beauty

Could you tell us a little about your life, of his published works, awards, his literary activity? Traffic

two worlds, one is closer to the epic, another opera.
anchors in a shot on another flight. In both work with silence and words

When did you write? Why?

In my teens or even earlier, moved by the illumination of a flash and before the suspension of time in an arbor of wisteria. Then as desperate and surreal to hold a beautiful friendship in the distance

How would you define his poetry?

is very hard to do, is beyond me. Some comes from the depths of a tear, images of a daydream, what blows me the secret language of flowers. Other than tearing the social, trademark seventies. Or the speed of travel or stamps as fleeting and reading other poets

What authors influenced your poetry?

Pizarnik was a brand burned into my teens, the Surrealists
Girondo. Lutreamont, English poets, Alberti, Machado, Cernuda. The golden age of Quevedo. The American, Vallejo,
Huidobro, Octavio Paz. The tragic poets, Storni, Agustini, Plath and Borges


What is the order you would like to accomplish with your poetry?

Getting to this beauty of a line that illuminates a path in the dark. A brush stroke on a canvas unforgettable score heart

What poem would you choose if you had to choose one special? Why?

If I eat bread?
If I drink water?
Excerpt from a poem Pizarnik, which reveals that leap that impossible, to play things with words. That's what poetry aims

How poetic language has changed over the years?

change has changed and I do not know whether for better or for worse. Before it was more concentrated, more contained, more surreal. The epic requires more space now may be doing it as a haiku meditative

For you are born or become a writer?

is done with their readings and their work, then perhaps a destination as Borges says poetry. Is not the same being a writer than a poet

What advice would you give to a young writer / writer which begins in this beautiful way of the WORD?

There is some rigor to require words, one is not sweetened with them and choose the most beautiful. Find out what shines between them in the plot, his silence

How do you see the publishing industry today?

A globalized market, where poetry is the Cinderella of the arts

If I had to recommend a book of poetry, prose, short stories, novels etc. What would you recommend?

The Metamorphosis of Ovid, Eliot's The Waste Land, Rayuela by Cortazar, Borges' The Aleph, Flor de Lis, of Marosa di Giorgio

What do you think of new ways of spreading the word, whether on websites, forums literary cyber, virtual magazines, ñusleter, blogs etc?

That is expanding, yet we can not measure its multiple effects, certainly offers endless possibilities for exchanges and new doors
As all you have to select what counts and what does not

Finally Want you add something?

Thanks for this proposal to disseminate and share this space to think, this blank page: an invitation to the poem SILVIA


MANZINI