Tristura en el deleite y deleite en la comarca,
¿a qué me pierdes entre los hierros
de la prisión en fuga?
Muerdes la sangre.
El viento borra en un instante su castigo.
¡Vengan aquí, acuéstense
sobre los huesos de la divina heredad!
Cristales todopoderosos,
¿se manifestaron tus lastimaduras?



Yo es una mínima parodia
en una tienda de caretas.
(Último brote del invierno en las ciudades.)
El trono está quebrado:
han lavado allí sus atavíos.
Vertiendo estoy al alba
hijitos con ojos de Caín
-leche y brasa y sed-,
todos oscuros.



¿Zumban alimañas
bajo estas posesiones?
Vi la manifestación.
Vi el mar de vidrio mezclado con el fuego.
Vi el manantial.
Vi el monstruo.


Parecíame crecer en la llaga
caliente de la divina tiniebla.


Manuel Lozano
Buenos Aires, septiembre de 2009


(Este poema inauguró "El Oro de los Tigres -Comunicación de Autor", edición temática: "Amadeo Modigliani o el misterio del instinto de la raza, del 17-IX-2009)

El actor Andy García -como Modigliani- en el film de 2005

Nueva Representante y Corresponsal de El Oro de los Tigres en Edinburgh

Dra. Fiona J. Mackintosh

MA (Cantab), M Phil (Oxon), PhD (Warwick)

Lecturer in Latin American Literature Programme Director of the MSc in Literature and Transatlanticism (from July 2009) -University of Edinburgh

Research interests:

A recent period of AHRC-funded Research Leave (2008) has resulted in articles on 'Self-Censorship and New Voices in Pizarnik's Unpublished Manuscripts' and on 'Alejandra Pizarnik as Translator'.

General research interests in 20th-century Latin American literature (prose and poetry), particularly of the Southern Cone, and more particularly still of the River Plate. Women’s writing. Literary translation. Comparative literature and transatlantic literary exchange.

Member of CLARE.

Possible topics on which I would be happy to supervise:

Latin American women’s writing

Women and the canon; redefining the fantastic; fiction and feminism; the gendered self; silence and the ineffable; the poetic persona.

Authors might include: Victoria Ocampo, Isabel Allende, Vlady Kociancich, Liliana Heker, Carmen Boullosa, María Luisa Bombal, Elena Poniatowska, Luisa Valenzuela, Alfonsina Storni, Gabriela Mistral, Alejandra Pizarnik, Olga Orozco, Silvina Ocampo, Josefina Plá, Rosario Castellanos, María Negroni, Alicia Borinsky.

20th-century Latin American novel and short story

Music and visual art in literary texts; literature and the guerra sucia in Argentina; the fantastic. Authors might include: Mario Vargas Llosa, Alejo Carpentier, Julio Cortázar, Luisa Valenzuela, Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares.

Transatlantic literary exchange

Cultural relations between Argentina and Europe, particularly France; travel writing on and from Latin America; the Scottish presence in Latin American literature.

Recent and current PhD students:

Inés Ferrero Candenas – ‘Gendering the Marvelous: Strategies of Response in Remedios Varo, Elena Garro and Carmen Boullosa’ (PhD awarded 2007)

Carolina Orloff – ‘The Representation of the Political Element and its Evolution in Julio Cortázar’s Longer Fiction’ (current student)

Selected publications:

Árbol de Alejandra: Pizarnik Reassessed, ed. by Fiona J. Mackintosh with Karl Posso (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2007)

Childhood in the Works of Silvina Ocampo and Alejandra Pizarnik (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2003) '"Tales eran sus rostros": Silvina Ocampo and Norah Borges', Romance Studies , 27:1 (2009), 59-71.

See www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney

‘Babes in the bosque: Fairy Tales in Twentieth-Century Argentine Women’s Writing’, in Fairy Tales and Feminism: New Approaches, ed. by Donald Haase, pp. 149-67 (Michigan: Wayne State University Press, 2004) ‘

“My Dreams are of a Field Afar” or Sonnets from the English: Silvina Ocampo’s Relationship to British Poetry’, Symbiosis 8.1 (2004) 91-107 ‘

“El impostor” from cuento to Filmscript’, in An Argentine Passion: María Luisa Bemberg and Her Films, ed. by John King and Sheila Whitaker (London: Verso, 2000), pp. 193-215

‘The Other Book’ by Luisa Valenzuela, translated from the Spanish by Fiona Mackintosh, Bomb Magazine, 74 (New York, Winter 2000) 84-85, Special Issue: Latin America.

‘The Unquenched Thirst: An Intertextual Reading of ‘las dos poetas hermanas’, Alejandra Pizarnik and Elizabeth Azcona Cranwell’, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 77.2 (2000) 263-78.

‘La pequeña Alice: Alejandra Pizarnik and Alice in Wonderland’, Fragmentos, 16 (1999) 41-55. Special Issue: Alice in Translation: A Homage to Lewis Carroll.

Teaching interests:

Current 4th year undergraduate modules on ‘Spanish American Women’s Writing’ and ‘Reading Latin American Poetry’. In previous years modules on ‘History and the Writer in Latin America’ and ‘Reality and Fantasy in Latin American Fiction’. At Masters level, co-teaching on the option ‘Borges and Calvino’ with Dr Claudia Nocentini from Italian, and the option ‘Hispanic Transatlantic and French Caribbean’ both of which are available within various Masters programmes including Comparative Literature, and Literature and Transatlanticism.

Con Fiona Mackintosh, de la Universidad de Edimburgo