El salto de Penélope y algunos sobresaltos: Antología personal (1990-2025): Penelope’s Leap and Some Startling Moves: Personal Anthology (1990-2025) -

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by María Elena Blanco

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El salto de Penélope y algunos sobresaltos. Antología personal (1990–2025) reúne la obra más significativa de María Elena Blanco, una de las voces más singulares de la poesía cubana y latinoamericana. Su escritura sostiene un diálogo profundo con la tradición —Ulises, Atenea, Venus, Beckett, Cavafis, Joyce, Antonioni, Godard— pero evita cualquier gesto ornamental: la poeta depura la referencia hasta convertirla en materia viva. La antología recorre escenarios que van de Viena a Valparaíso, de Venecia a Nueva York, sin asumir la nostalgia ni la crónica: Blanco transforma la experiencia en pensamiento poético y restituye, desde su rigor, una forma nueva de mirar. Su obra preserva la intensidad del mito a la vez que desmonta sus certezas, y proyecta una luz crítica sobre el tiempo, el lenguaje y los desplazamientos del yo. Esta edición bilingüe —prólogo de Andrés Morales y versiones al inglés realizadas por la autora— permite acceder a la amplitud de su proyecto: una poética que interroga la realidad y la trastoca con precisión, sin artificios, con una fuerza que consolida su lugar dentro del canon latinoamericano contemporáneo. Penelope’s Leap and Some Startling Moves. Personal Anthology (1990–2025) gathers the most significant work of María Elena Blanco, one of the most distinctive voices in Cuban and Latin American poetry. Her writing engages in a profound dialogue with tradition—Ulysses, Athena, Venus, Beckett, Cavafy, Joyce, Antonioni, Godard—while maintaining a refined clarity free from excess. Each allusion emerges with purpose, stripped to its essential force, and placed at the service of a poetics that activates memory, thought, and vision. The anthology moves across Vienna, Valparaíso, Venice, and New York without yielding to nostalgia or documentary impulse. Blanco reshapes experience into poetic intelligence and illuminates, with rigor, new ways of seeing. Her work sustains the intensity of myth while dismantling its certainties, opening a space where time, language, and displacement converge in a renewed critical dimension. This bilingual edition —featuring a foreword by Andrés Morales and English versions by the author— offers full access to the scope of her project: a poetics that interrogates reality and alters it with precision, asserting her presence within the contemporary Latin American canon.

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