Medbh McGuckian y la ansiedad ecofeminista: “La contingencia del acontecer”
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https://doi.org/10.24162/EI2020-9757Palabras clave:
Medbh McGuckian, “The Contingency of Befalling”, elegía, poesía, Irlanda del Norte, ecofeminismo, crisis climáticaResumen
El presente artículo analiza el poema inédito de Medbh McGuckian “The Contingency of Befalling”, que aborda la actual crisis climática desde una posición ecofeminista. Podría decirse que la poeta forma parte de la tendencia elegíaca de Irlanda del Norte al tratar cuestiones de su país, pero se aparta de una tradición dominada por los hombres y conecta el lamento con cuestiones éticas, políticas, nacionales, ecológicas y relacionadas con las mujeres. Este poema está conectado con los de su reciente libro Marine Cloud Brightening (2019), en el que se incluyen poemas de duelo tanto por su hermano como por otros poetas irlandeses fallecidos recientemente, con especial atención a Seamus Heaney. La perspectiva de McGuckian sobre la situación de la tierra y de los que viven en ella es sombría y la vincula con las penurias, si las políticas de los gobernantes no cambian.
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Appendix
“The Contingency of Befalling”
In the galloping melt of the lethal church
there are eighty species of lupin,
a grove of candles, Mary plants.
their perfume becomes a ghost of itself,
unrewindable as a woman’s sense of smell.
The formerly esteemed fragrances
of nature’s good intentions photographed
lips in that psychedelic year, scented
the signature, the fallen god of our senses.
I obey the freshness of water, perfume’s
ally, in my self-scape dream,
as the global bleaches out the subfeminine,
laundry drying on the outside of the room.
It is the thin character of angels,
skimmingly light, to soak graves
with spirit steps, the body wrapped
in stringy bark, fever car just departed.
Witches who don’t have a library
stole my symptoms, my monthsick
hands in some pattern of dangerous prayer,
their t-celled wombs wider than leechbook leaves.
They wrap this earth in black wool
and sell it, spine like a railway,
tree and branch breakage,
the sympathy of silk, her valley finally
reborn into the world with a tongue now dust.
“La contingencia del acontecer”
Al derretirse al galope la iglesia letal
Hay ochenta especies de altramuces,
Un huerto de velas, las plantas de María.
Su perfume se convierte en un fantasma de sí mismo,
Irrebobinable como el sentido del olfato de una mujer.
Las fragancias antes estimadas
De las buenas intenciones de la naturaleza retrataban
Labios en aquel año sicodélico, perfumada
La firma, el dios caído de nuestros sentidos.
Obedezco a la frescura del agua, del perfume
Aliada, en mi sueño de autoescape,
Como lo global blanquea lo subfemenino,
La colada secando en la parte exterior de la habitación.
Es el carácter fino de los ángeles,
Superficialmente ligero, para absorber de las tumbas
Con pasos de espíritu, el cuerpo amortajado
Con corteza fibrosa, el coche de la fiebre acaba de partir.
Las brujas que no tienen biblioteca
Robaron mis síntomas, mi regla
presenta una cadencia de rezo peligroso,
Sus matrices de células T más grandes que las hojas del libro de las sanguijuelas.
Envuelven esta tierra en lana negra
Y la venden, con la espina vertebral como la de un ferrocarril,
Rotura de árboles y ramas,
La sintonía de la seda, su valle finalmente
Renacido al mundo con una lengua ahora de polvo.
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