Myriam Moscona

Myriam Moscona
Born1955 (age 70–71)
Mexico City, Mexico
Occupations
  • Journalist
  • translator
  • poet

Myriam Moscona (מרים מוסקונה) (born 1955 in Mexico City) is a Mexican journalist, translator and poet in the Ladino and Spanish languages who comes from a Bulgarian Sephardi Jewish family. She teaches at Miami University. She was the artist in-residence from the Banff Centre for the Arts in 2000.

Awards

Selected works

Poem

Rectas son las curvas de Moebius/En torcedumbre y doloridos/Con esas cintas nos krearon

Moebius' curves are straight/Within twisting and sorrow/We were created with these ribbons

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Books

Anthologies

Review

Ivory Black's 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.

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