Review: Collateral of Dina Piera Di Donato

Dear steemit readers. Recently I made a Spanish publication of a poems by this author. The order of these publications has two fundamental reasons. The first is chronological; the poetry book La Sorda was published in 2011 while Collateral was published in 2013. The second reason refers to language; La Sorda is a book in Spanish and Collateral is a bilingual Spanish-English edition. The latter is of great literary weight since it is about poems and I do not have the official certification to make a correct translation of the Di Donato verses.

If you wish to review the Spanish publication “Un acercamiento al poemario La Sorda de Dina Piera Di Donato” you can check the link Here.

The poet and translator Ricardo Alberto Maldonado performed the translation with the contribution of the cuban-american poet Alina Galliano (1950-2017).

DinaPiera Di Donato was born in Venezuela in the town of Upata located in the Bolivar State. Then, he studied in Paris VIII - France where they obtained a Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Hispanic American Literature. Subsequently, she has a brief step through Venezuela, in the city of Cumaná, where she works as a professor and researcher at the Universidad de Oriente in the Department of Philosophy and Letters. Currently, she lives in New York City where she continues her literary production in an active way.

Collateral was the winning text of the National Poetry Series' Paz Prize for Poetry. A great aesthetic of language converges with diverse geographies (physical and spiritual). An anthropological-cultural mix, real or fictional, with fabrics from past eras. But it is not about verses anchored to the past, it is about intervening with desires, love and life in the present, recognizing the mark of time.

To read Collateral I suggest that it be understood as an opera, that is, it can be seen in parts but to understand it you have to look at it all. This is Collateral: a poetic opera that in each poem has a part of something bigger.

In this review I would like to share about three or four poems in the book because the idea is not to make an extremely extensive publication but to observe, from my modest point of view, the poetic imaginary of an extraordinary woman. I will start with the poem Beg.

Collateral, P 57