Camouflage
By Lupe Gomez
2017
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Poetry. Women's Studies. Translation. Translated by Erín Moure. CAMOUFLAGE is a new collection of poems by the Galician poet and journalist Lupe Gómez. The poems in CAMOUFLAGE are sharp, tender elegies for a mother and for a rural village, its changing walks and ways and words. In CAMOUFLAGE, we see how one person can be "two sisters," with "two pasts." We learn about making cheeses, but also that "Death is a political project." Gómez's bold voice erases the line between the political and the domestic, the experimental and the sequential, and allows for celebratory insight. CAMOUFLAGE was published in Spain in 2017 and is Gómez's eleventh book of poetry but her first published in the United States. The poems were originally written in Galician, a language spoken by about 3 million people, primarily in Galicia, an "autonomous community" in the northwest of Spain. Translator and poet Erín Moure has translated the book into an intimate English with a vivid and tight "linguistic embrace." CAMOUFLAGE is a bilingual edition with a translator's introduction, and presents a new approach to designing work in translation.
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Lupe Gomez
Author · 7 books
Lupe Gómez was born in Fisteus, Galicia in 1972 and currently lives in Santiago de Compostela. Her first book of poems, Pornography, published in the mid 1990s, sent a ripple of surprise and protest through Galician literature for its bold exploration of women’s bodies and sexuality. It was translated into English by Rebeca Lema and Erín Moure, and published in Germany in 2013 in an extensive volume on her work entitled Libre e estranxeira—Estudos e traducións. Camouflage (Chan da Pólvora, 2017) is her 15th book, and is in its third printing in Galicia. It received the prestigious Spanish Critics’ Prize for 2018 for poetry in Galician and the 2018 Gala do Libro Galego Prize for poetry. Camouflage and Pornography will both appear in Spanish (Castilian) translation in 2019. Besides devoting herself to poetry, Gómez is a journalist and theater critic, and a liturgical reader in the cathedral of Santiago. Her work will soon be put to music by acclaimed musician and singer Amancio Prada.
