Lírica

Synopsis of Lírica

What persists? And what does not remain? From jarchas to house lyrics, from San Juan to Rosalía, from Fernanda Laguna to Pedro Lemebel, from Whitman to Lorca, and from Lorca to Jack Spicer, the thought surrounding the powers of transmission and evocation of a lyrical poetry of millennial genealogy mixed with vibrant contemporary uses unfolds in this book through the author's own and others' poems, song lyrics, performance texts, graphic work, and essays that took the form of classes, letters, notes, and a wild writing notebook until almost losing the silhouette of prose. All pieces of an artistic investigation carried out by the author while writing her poetry collections Salitre (2019), Rekord and Sale (2023), the texts collected in Lírica theorize her practice and put her intuitions into practice. Multiple, fresh, and light, this book about voice, feeling, and language also keeps an artisanal impression of the work in the pamphlet the next day in front of the gates. María Salgado combines writing and performance in the search for a poetry that makes the present sound and that reconnects with the world and desire, with the desire for the world.