Myriam Moscona
Encyclopedia
Myriam Moscona (born 1955 Mexico City
) is a Mexican journalist
, translator and poet
in Ladino
and Spanish language
s who comes from a Bulgaria
n Sephardi Jewish family. She teaches at Miami University
. She was the artist in-residence from the Banff Centre for the Arts in 2000.
/En torcedumbre y doloridos/Con esas cintas nos krearon
Moebius' curves are straight/Within twisting and sorrow/We were created with these ribbons
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
) is a Mexican journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
, translator and poet
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
in Ladino
Judaeo-Spanish
Judaeo-Spanish , in Israel commonly referred to as Ladino, and known locally as Judezmo, Djudeo-Espanyol, Djudezmo, Djudeo-Kasteyano, Spaniolit and other names, is a Romance language derived from Old Spanish...
and Spanish language
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
s who comes from a Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
n Sephardi Jewish family. She teaches at Miami University
Miami University
Miami University is a coeducational public research university located in Oxford, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1809, it is the 10th oldest public university in the United States and the second oldest university in Ohio, founded four years after Ohio University. In its 2012 edition, U.S...
. She was the artist in-residence from the Banff Centre for the Arts in 2000.
Poem
Rectas son las curvas de MoebiusMöbius strip
The Möbius strip or Möbius band is a surface with only one side and only one boundary component. The Möbius strip has the mathematical property of being non-orientable. It can be realized as a ruled surface...
/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
Awards
- 2006 Guggenheim FellowshipGuggenheim FellowshipGuggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...
- 1998 Aguascalientes National Poetry Award, for Las visitantes.
Works
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, ISBN 9789684940499; CIDCLI, 1997, ISBN 9789684940499
- El árbol de los nombres Secretaría de Cultura, Gobierno de Jalisco, 1992, ISBN 9789706240002
- De frente y de perfil: Semblanzas de poetas Ciudad de México, DDF, 1994
- Vísperas Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1996, ISBN 9789681650858
- Negro marfil Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2000; Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, 2006
- El que nada, Ediciones Era, 2006, ISBN 9789684116719
- En la superficie azul, Costa Rica 2008.
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,ISBN 9780195124545
- The River Is Wide/el Rio Es Ancho: Twenty Mexican Poets, Editor Marlon L. Fick, Translator Marlon L. Fick, UNM Press, 2005, ISBN 9780826334381
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.