PROFILE: THE CORNER
Create around the house
By Fernando J . PÉREZ
Poet and former aviator, Maria Victoria Atencio has two new books
"If you had four children running around the house can not have mania for writing. They did not bother me and I do not annoying to them when they write. "Every room in the floor of Maria Victoria Atencio (1931), with spectacular views of the harbor and the Alcazaba in Málaga, the city, have served the poet to develop his work. Atencio, very concerned about Smiling out, pick a corner of the room to portray. There, in a table beside the chair sit two volumes: one thousand years of English poetry anthology compiled by Francisco Rico. The other is the last issue of Litoral, magazine founded by Emilio Prados and Manuel Altolaguirre in 1926, dedicated precisely to the relationship between poetry and photography.
Atencio has a family room that has become a sanctuary for the writer. "This special room is probably the least use for writing, because it does not seem right to leave the family apart, but in it are the books to which one always returns that seem to change with the passing of months and reading" he says. On the shelves on one side stand the works of St. John of the Cross, St. Teresa and Góngora and, secondly, all the authors of the generation of 27. "As a young one reads as if choking, with rest and now I read the same books I think are new." Volumes are also "friends who accompany me and always reread" as Olvido García Valdés and José Ángel Valente. "We had many more books, but we have been giving children, two letters have been studied with poetry, and two doctors, have the American novel and travel literature," said Atencio, who recognizes that reads little prose. On a wooden stand rest leather editions of several of his poems, like Ex Libris or Martha & Mary, and the walls are some of the awards he has received, including the appointment of the favorite daughter of Andalusia or diploma honorary member of the Hispanic Society of America.
Atencio, a former aviator - "I turned over to Spain several times in a Cessna, some ideas of my poems came to me when I was flying," he says, still writing. In the table, perfectly stacked next to a silver crucifix, expect proofs of the threshold, a collection of poems just published by Pre-Textos, and the anthology As things cry out, to be published by Abelardo Linares Sevila.
Article: http://www.elpais.com 26/03/2011
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