On Friday the 7th, at 7 p.m., the book will be presented Nail polish remover & aluminum & other poems, by Devenori Ronda, in the institution located in Alameda de Ciudad. Entrance is free and open.
Edited by Orejana Ediciones, this special activity will take place with the reading of poems by Devenori Ronda, Sabrina Barrego and Elizabeth Auster. There will also be a visual performance by Victoria Malamud and songs by Mabel Núñez.
The appointment is in the Gildo D’Accurzio Room of the General San Martín Public Library, Av. San Martín 1843, City of Mendoza.
About the author
Devenori Ronda was born in Tunuyán, Mendoza, in 1997. She is a yoga teacher and participated in Learte, Escritrorxs del Valle de Uco, as well as in the 1st Women, trans/transvestite, non-binary, lesbian and + Writers Forum of Mendoza ( 2019).
She is part of the Chuncanas Escritoras de Mendoza collective (2021) and was the winner of the 2022 Creation Scholarship from the National Arts Fund with her first book Nail polish remover & aluminum & other poems.
Nail polish remover…
Nail polish remover & aluminum & other poems It is a text-path. A collection of poems of internal journeys and transformations; a map that marks the territory and tells us: here is the countryside, here are the sacred places, here are the witches of my lineage.
Just in case the suggestive deck-cover was not enough, a footnote on the first page announces that the poems are numbered according to the tarot. Each poem houses a letter. He doesn’t explain it, he doesn’t repeat it. It houses it, provides it with a space for transformation, a place where it can be something other than what tradition assigned it.
The poem does not adhere to the mesh of the archetype, but goes beyond it, walking on it. We can ignore the passwords and cross the field anyway, immersed in the thickness of the verses. But, as in those double-entry homes, there is another access to the territory of this book. A hidden area that invites us to encounter the tarot, that small box of ancient drawings that lives in hidden places.
