CALLE TEMUCO (Literatura y comentarios)

De las heridas nacemos de nuevo, dicen de la honestidad o del alabastro de la perseverancia y el dominio del dolor que tiene rostro y enredaderas. Día de tantas lenguas y serpientes con nombres. Día que se oscureció y se puso más oscuro. Se coagula la memoria, la brújula, se expanden tangibles como el correr de una vertiente. Viajo en lo contrario a todo esto: Tendré otra muerte, otra tierra, otras perspectivas, haré mi propia comarca, mis horas, mis años, me voy por ellas suavemente a la mar de las edades. Mi éxodo ya estacionado en alguna parte, ya no triste, sino detenido, pensante. Y a ti, recordándote día te incorporo a una cárcel, porque no hay "amor en las violencias" ni en las sombras y ni en los escondites por donde te fuiste. Eugenia Toledo Renner

RAISING LILLY LEDBETTER: WOMEN POETS OCCUPY THE WORKSPACE RAISING LILLY LEDBETTER: WOMEN POETS OCCUPY THE WORKSPACE $21.00Price ISBN: 978-0-9911465-9-8 Pub Date: Spring 2015 Pages: 264 Carolyne Wright, M.L. Lyons, and Eugenia Toledo, editors In January 2009, after President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act into law, his first legislative act after taking office, poets Carolyne Wright and Eugenia Toledo began to think about the need to hear more from women about their workplace experiences—not just pay and promotion inequity, or workplace harassment and intimidation, but all matters relevant to women and work in an increasingly globalized world, including the ever-widening range of occupations in which women are engaged, and their joy and satisfaction of work well done. Six years after the signing of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, however, women’s pay has continued to average 77 cents for every dollar earned by men; pay for women of color has averaged even lower....