The sea that protects us
We opened the poems book by Oihana Jaka and found two deals. One father and another son. It is worth noting for its direct relationship with the poems we will find. The book is structured in three parts:
Hamaika urte, Hamaika hilabete eta Hamaika egun. Number eleven is also a way of saying a lot in Basque. They are the time intervals that are introduced within each other, year, month and day, and can give rise to the matrix figure quoted in the book. I think he has managed to fade the three parts: through different meanings given to the same figures, among others. In the first part the poetic self refers to the age at which his
father died. In this section we will find poems that speak of the footprint that left this early loss, for example, in the last two lines of the last poem: My father's death would make me freer,
/ to free me if I was not so young. The poem on page 17 is written in mirror. It uses the same phrases from top to bottom, thus forming a beautiful palindromo. I poetic, who continues to celebrate his father's birthday, lives like a mirage, and I think his father's shape and birthday beautifully gathers his content. I also loved the poem that reflects on how (a) your dead do not know how (20). In the second part, the poetic self talks about the loss of the child who has lost before birth. Where are the unborn children going?
/ Now my womb is
an empty house (27). I poetic also tells us about the pregnancy of a second child before jumping to the third episode: I have two hearts / and I am not a monster. / One marriage within another / alone./ The third part is the longest and the title is limited by the time it takes the eleventh day to return from the hospital home. It talks about the birth that occurred undesired, with the pain, stains and wounds that this caused. Doubts about the birth after the lost child, fear of forgetting this spot, etc. In this section the author has used powerful images: The wave that got me from the ear / that came out of the paw / flooded. - With fish (57). Or the amnesic bladder (62). Sometimes I find it confusing to whom he refers or to whom the voice speaks. I liked the style: from time to time it is correct and raw, it makes good use of images and metaphors, it underlines language and everyday details, it uses ingenious word games... Ione Gorostarzuren reminded me of the book "It is not childbirth", which, although different, I see the need to name some topics. And I have also taken the smell of Karmele Igartua: seeing how the image of the sea acquires various meanings or in that poem
on page 65 (it is not the same...). I also invite you to enter that sea.
Fun Home. A tragic family
history Alison Bechdel
Txalaparta, 2024
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Fun Home. Alison Bechdel is known for the first publication of the graphic novel A Tragic Family Story (2006), although he himself participated in several... [+]
PLEIBAK
Miren Amuriza Plaza
Susa, 2024
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Susa has published Miren Amuriza's second novel in the atrium of the Durango Fair: Plead. It's plebiscites because you're singing about an earlier recording. Berria includes the... [+]
Book Non sense
Edward Lear
Translation: Juan Kruz Igerabide
Denonartean, 2024
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The writer and illustrator Edward Lear published this work in 1846. As Igerabide says in the prologue of the book, “nonsense humor, absurd... [+]
Hetero
Uxue Alberdi
Susa, 2024
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In the era of negationism, the manosphere and trolls, the contribution of literature is essential, because it is an exceptional instrument to look at the folds of reality: the situations... [+]
Guardasola wants rain
Patxi Zubizarreta
Illustrations: Irrimarra
Ibaizabal, 2024
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30 years ago Patxi Zubizarreta published the book Marigoringoak hegan; J. M. Illustrated by Lavarello and by the hand of the Catalan publisher... [+]
Eyes on the horizon
Writer: Illustrator Miren Agur
Meabe: Ane Pikaza
Elkar, 2020
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Miren Agur Meabe has published several texts and books. He's worked with all the literary genres: children's and youth literature,... [+]
Barrengaizto
Beatrice Salvioni (Translation:
deceit Fernando Rey)
Txalaparta, 2024
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Fernando Rey has chosen the title of Barrizto to translate La malnata de Beatrice Salvioni. King says he has tried to be the voice of the... [+]
PELLOKERIAK
Ruben Ruiz
Illustrations: Joseba Beramendi, exprai.
Elkar, 2022
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Rubén Ruiz offers a new work of short stories. They are not micronarratives, because the stories, although they can be read independently, have a... [+]
Memet
Noemie Marsily and Isabella
Cieli For Centos, 2022
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We opened the zipper of the camping in red and looked through the leek along with Lucy. With this cover, the reader receives the comic book Memet. Simple words... [+]
A Heart Museum
Leire Vargas
Elkar, 2024
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The Basque cultural system has a thirst for young people. That's what Leire Vargas said in the written column in Berria. The industry is looking for fresh, varied and diverse... [+]
What you love. Word recall, live reading
Miren Billelabeitia
Pamiela, 2022
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Miren Billelabeitia has been a professor at the institute, a literary aficionado and a professor of Universal Literature for years. In 2022 he... [+]
Snarka Lewis Carroll
Hunting
Images:
Translation and Edition of Henry Holiday:Manu LÓpez Gaseni
Pamiela, 2024
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The work we have before us was published in the spring. After the works of Alice in Wonderland,... [+]
Lighting
Miriam Luki
Susa, 2023
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Translations
Miren Agur Meabe
Elkar, 2023
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Last year, Miren Agur Meabe published the novel Itzulerak. As the main characters are young people, we could say that it is juvenile literature, but when literature is good, it is for... [+]
Text:
Ilan Brenman
Illustrations: Guilherme Karsten
translation: In Alkain
Denonartean, 2024
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At the end of this album is a quote from Benjamin Franklin: “There has never been a good war, nor a bad peace.” And... [+]