C p gloria fuertes biography

Or at least the first in Madrid to ride a bicycle wearing skorts , and who made ties fashionable among women. Poet Jaime Gil de Biedma was an enthusiast of her poetry and made a selection of her poems for a prestigious collection. Despite having limited studies and no teaching experience, Gloria Fuertes was a university professor in the United States between and , a period she considered the happiest of her life.

It was the era of Kennedy and the beginning of the Vietnam War. Gloria said she used to make her students tear up their enlistment papers. The theme of war is present in many of her poems. She had always wanted to bring them together in a book, and she already had the title in mind: Claw of War. In the Foundation where her legacy is kept, there is a blue folder full of all types of papers from subway tickets to commercial prints with the writings that belong to that period.

Probably her first typewriting exercises, too. Something direct, emotive, with flair. To prove that: any feeling, idea, topic, or thing, has poetry within it. Gloria Fuertes was born in a modest family in Madrid in Her mother was a seamstress and maid; her father, a beadle. Her interest in writing started at the early age of five, when she started writing and illustrating stories.

However, she also declared that her family did not support her in the slightest and that her mother would reprimand her if she saw her with a book. In she started working as an accountant and secretary, jobs that for a long time she combined with writing stories for children, theatre plays and, increasingly, poetry. Although she always defined herself as "self-taught and poetically deschooling" her name has been linked to two literary movements: The Generation of 50 and Postismo, a literary group of postwar who joined late 40s and were part Carlos Edmundo de Ory, Eduardo Chicharro and Silvano Sernesi, and which also collaborated Angel Crespo and Francisco Nieva.

Postismo remained forever in Gloria Fuertes demystifying poetic attitude by way of humor; humor in Gloria Fuertes is a critical way of constructing reality and discovering the truth of things. The Civil War left a deep impression on her. The anti-war and protest against the absurdity of civilization are present in her poetry categorically.

As she said, "without the tragedy of war I might never had written poetry. Fuenn, Samuel Joseph. Fuenllana, Miguel de. Fuels, Alternative. Fuels and Fuel Chemistry. Fuelgen, Robert Joachim. FuelCell Energy, Inc. Fuerth, Henriette. Fuessli, Johann Heinrich. Fueter, Karl Rudolf. Fuga alla giga. Fugard, Sheila —.

C p gloria fuertes biography

Fugate, Katherine Fugees, The. Fugger Family. Between and , the group worked with Antonio Gala, Julio Mariscal, and Rafael Mir to create and direct the poetry magazine Archer. From to , Fuertes studied library science and English at the International Institute. In , she received a Fulbright scholarship in the United States to teach Spanish literature at Bucknell University.

Fuertes' poetry has a colloquial tone, often dealing with everyday objects or events, [ 1 ] and universal issues such as love, pain, death, and loneliness. Her works are known for containing metaphors and linguistic games, which give her poems a musicality and cadence close to spoken language. The influence of the postismo movement, which began in response to the Spanish Civil War, is shown in Fuertes' use of humour.

The Spanish Civil War left a deep impression on Fuentes, and her anti-war stance and the influence of the subsequent postismo movement shows in her poetry through her use of ironic humor and protest against the absurdity of civilization. Fuentes said, "Without the tragedy of war, I might never have written poetry. Critics have praised Fuertes for her "folksy and deliberately fresh orality", and for "open[ing] the poetic space" of post-war Spain to the concerns of women and the working class.

Fuertes never concealed the fact that she was a lesbian, despite the attitudes of the Franco dictatorship. Much of Fuertes' work deals with women's rights and questions the gender roles in Francoist Spain. Fuertes died of lung cancer on 27 November , and was buried in the South Cemetery in Madrid. She left her fortune to a Catholic orphanage. On 28 July , Google celebrated her 99th birthday with a Google Doodle.

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