Laura Solórzano was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco in 1961. She currently runs a small independent business as a textiles artisan in Guadalajara. Her poems have been published in various Mexican literary journals, most recently in Hoja Frugal (available free of cost from the editor, Dolores Dorantes, at doloresdorantes@hotmail.com); her most recent books are lobo de labio (chapbook, Serie poesía, Cuadernos de filodecaballos, Guadalajara: 2001) and Semilla de Ficus (Ediciones Rimbaud, Tlaxcala: 1999).
Jen Hofer is the editor and translator of an anthology of contemporary poetry by Mexican women which will be co-published by University of Pittsburgh Press and Ediciones Sin Nombre in 2003. Her other works include “Laws,” the July 2001 issue of A.BACUS, and The 3:15 Experiment, in conjunction with Lee Ann Brown, Danika Dinsmore and Bernadette Mayer (The Owl Press, 2001). Her first book of poems, Slide Rule, will be published by subpress in March 2002. Recent poems, translations and collaborations can be found in forthcoming issues of Antennae, Aufgabe, Chain, Kenning and Tripwire.
Poem in Blue and White
We have in our body the earth’s fertile hemisphere: to feel the white seed in the fear of our bones. And an opaque, damp consistency. Corporeal music furrowed by aqueous conduits, when our blood throbs. Increasing delirium. Intimacy blossoms like offal blossoms, with its pistils in an ecstasy of useless softness. So many times we can see them bud: blue flowers from the husks of our suffering, they rise up like the first and last notes of an imperious song.
Poema en blanco y azu
Tenemos en el cuerpo el hemisferio fértil de la tierra: sentir la blanca semilla en el temor de los huesos. Y una consistencia opaca y húmeda. Corpórea música surcada por conductos acuosos, cuando late la sangre. Delirio en crecimiento. Florece la intimidad como florece el despojo con los pistilos extasiados de suavidad inservible. Tantas veces podemos verlas brotar: flores azules desde las cáscaras de nuestra pena, se elevan como las notas primeras y últimas de una imperiosa canción.