Myriam Moscona (מרים מוסקונה) (born 1955 in

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) is a Mexican

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and

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in the Ladino and

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s who comes from a

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n Sephardi Jewish family. She teaches at

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. She was the artist in-residence from the

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in 2000.

Awards

* 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship * 1998 Aguascalientes National Poetry Award, for ''Las visitantes''.

Selected works

Poem

''Rectas son las curvas de Moebius/En torcedumbre y doloridos/Con esas cintas nos krearon'' *''LA CINTA DE MOEBIUS'' ''Moebius' curves are straight/Within twisting and sorrow/We were created with these ribbons'' *''MOEBIUS RIBBON''

IMER

"Instructivo para descifrar un mal"
''IMER''

Books

*''Último jardín'' El Tucán de Virginia, 1983 *''Las visitantes'' (1989, Premio Nacional de Poesía de Aguascalientes) *''Las preguntas de Natalia'' Illustrator Fernando Medina, CIDCLI, 1991, ; CIDCLI, 1997, *''El árbol de los nombres'' Secretaría de Cultura, Gobierno de Jalisco, 1992, *''De frente y de perfil: Semblanzas de poetas'' Ciudad de México, DDF, 1994 *''Vísperas'' Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1996, *''Negro marfil'' Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2000; Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, 2006
''El que nada''
Ediciones Era, 2006, *''En la superficie azul'', Costa Rica 2008. *''De par en par'' (2009) *''Tela de Sevoya'' (2012)

Anthologies

"Excerpt from ''Black Ivory''"
''The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology'', Editors Cecilia Vicuña, Ernesto Livon-Grosman, Oxford University Press US, 2009,
''The River Is Wide/el Rio Es Ancho: Twenty Mexican Poets''
Editor Marlon L. Fick, Translator Marlon L. Fick, UNM Press, 2005,

Review

''Ivory Blacks edition was made by Sandra Lorenzano, rector of the UCSJ, with a foreword by the Chilean writer Soledad Bianchi. Se trata de un poema de largo aliento, ''una suma de fragmentos que construyen el conjunto" de versos que, en algunos tramos, se pueden leer de diversas maneras: de izquierda a derecha, de derecha a izquierda, de arriba hacia abajo y viceversa. It is a long-winded poem,''a sum of fragments that make up the whole "of verses which, in some sections, can be read in different ways: from left to right, right to left, top to bottom and vice versa.

References

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