Writing a gloss on Macky Corbalán’s poetry

Abstract

This is an introduction to the poetic work of Macky Corbalán, one of the most important voices in Patagonia with national and international significance due to its originality. Her posthumous book Conversaciones en la noche del amor is analyzed in this work. The relationships between poetry, literature and language, and a panorama of the evolution of her thought is drawn in those pages. In her last days, she defined herself as a poet, lesbian and feminist, and in Conversaciones en la noche del amor she puts it into words. The dissolution of the author as the owner of the texts and the free circulation of poetry, the constitution of alternative networks and spaces, the trust in poetic communities more than in traditions, and his criticism of the canon as an expression of the power that the language executes, as well as the giver of ephemeral prestige, are the characteristic features of the work of this woman who was born in Cutral Co, Neuquén, in 1962 and died in the capital of that province in 2014.