Salt Oracle - Softcover

Gordon, Ivonne

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798985368666

Publisher: Sea and Starlight Publishing, 2023

Synopsis

Salt Oracle is a collection of poems about the earth, the home, and the ancestral memory of the human body. It celebrates the connection of that body with the contents of its environment-with the body's movement and grace; with food that unfolds into generational tales; and with the dreams that, like memory, bridge the divide of human existence.

Estrellas de mar

La espuma salada del mar

crece en las manos

humedeciendo los huesos ancestrales de mi especie.

Las manos se convierten

en el templo del rito sagrado,

ese rito que cada día lo repito

como si fuera un rito

que me devuelve la gracia

Starfish

The salty foam of the sea

grows in my hands

and dampens my ancestral bones.

My hands become a temple

for that sacred ritual

that I repeat daily

as if it were a rite

that returns me to grace

La mirada del águila

Sus ojos hablan el lenguaje de otros mundos,

los silencios eternos se hacen presentes

en el ave de la magia y del presagio

que aparece detrás del vidrio.

The Eagle's Gaze

Its eyes speak the language of other worlds;

the eternal silences emerge

in the bird of magic and prophecy

that appears behind the glass.

About this title

About the Authors

Gayle is a writer and artist based in Edinburgh, Scotland. She achieved her bachelor's degree in drama at Exeter University and her master's degree in fine arts in film directing at Edinburgh College of Art. She has worked in theatre, film and illustration. Gayle studied shamanism with shamans from Brazil, France and the United Kingdom and spent time healing with the Shipibo-Conibo healers of Peru. She is passionate about the transformative power of storytelling. running with crows is her first novel.

Ivonne Gordon Carrera Andrade (Quito, Ecuador). She did her doctoral thesis on: Femininity as mask. A study of the poetic work of GabrielaMistral. She is a poet, essayist, literary critic and translator. Professor of Latin American literature at the University of Redlands, United States. Among the most recent awards, the I Poet in New York, Poetry Prize, Ediciones Valparaíso, USA; International Poetry Prize Hespérides (Argentina); Poetry Prize, Jorge Carrera Andrade (Ecuador); finalist of the Extraordinary Prize Casa de las Américas (Cuba); finalist of the International Poetry Prize Francisco de Aldana (Spain); finalist Andrés Bello Prize (Spain); Honorable mention Academia Oriente-Occidente (Romania). Her poetry is recorded at the Library of Congress in the United States. Keynote Speaker at several universities in the United States. She has been invited to the most important international poetry festivals, her poetry is included in numerous anthologies worldwide. Her poetry has been translated into English, Romanian, Greek and Polish. She has published numerous academic articles on Latin American literature for international dissemination. Among her academic awards, she was awarded a Fullbright scholarship to research on the Conversos in Ecuador. Her poetic production is of interest to leading scholars of poetry, there are important academic studies on her poetic work. Several international congresses on literature have dedicated panels to the study of her poetic trajectory.

Diego E. Fernández was born in Cali, Colombia, and raised in Los Angeles, California. He is a Spanish professor specializing in Latin American literature, critical theory, and instructional design. He has taught all levels of Spanish language and culture courses as well as Hispanic literature and film at the University of California, Irvine, University of Redlands, and Napa Valley College in California, as well as Middlebury Language Schools in Vermont, and College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts. In addition to teaching and writing, Diego is an animal lover and avid sports and fitness fan.

Gayle is a writer and artist based in Edinburgh, Scotland. She achieved her bachelor's degree in drama at Exeter University and her master's degree in fine arts in film directing at Edinburgh College of Art. She has worked in theatre, film and illustration. Gayle studied shamanism with shamans from Brazil, France and the United Kingdom and spent time healing with the Shipibo-Conibo healers of Peru. She is passionate about the transformative power of storytelling. running with crows is her first novel.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sea and Starlight Publishing
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798985368666
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112