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Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Who IS this Woman, and What are her Poems About?

 


Looking for something else, I stumbled across a tiny image of a book with a title that looked very much like it referred to a goddess/saint I know. I put the title of the book by Isabel Blanco Ollero into DuckDuckGo's browser window and got a translation:

BRIGID - O EL FUEGO DE LA TRANSFORMACIÓN works out to:

BRIGID - OR THE FIRE OF TRANSFORMATION.

Now, I know I'm on to something.

But I can’t read it, or even find an article in English to tell me about her. Who will read and tell us what she says?

We live in hope!

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UPDATE

One reader says:

 It's a book of poetry, apparently there are four poems. I can't find any of the actual text without buying it and there doesn't appear to be an online copy.

I have found what appears to be an illuminating article, thouh' of course I am going on the strength of the odd word I can guess.

 "BRIGID O EL FUEGO DE LA TRANSFORMACIÓN, DE ISABEL BLANCO OLLERO" by MANU LÓPEZ MARAÑÓN.


2 comments:

  1. An interview with the author can be found here: https://www.diariodenavarra.es/noticias/blogs/sopa-letras/2019/02/26/el-fuego-transformador-isabel-blanco-ollero-643294-3356.html

    She talks briefly about what she found inspirational in the figure of Brigid, but it does not appear as though the poems are specifically Brigidine.

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