Amorgos Notebook (Cuaderno de Amorgos) is a collection from 2007 that won for Elsa Cross Mexico's most prestigious poetry prize, the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize, especially valued by its recipients as the winner is chosen by her peers in the literary world. Elsa Cross' work over the past several decades has demonstrated a considerable fascination with Greece, and this sequence takes its departure from the island of Amorgos, in the Cyclades, home of remarkable ancient sculptures, and spectacular terrain.
Amorgos Notebook (Cuaderno de Amorgos) is a collection from 2007 that won for Elsa Cross Mexico's most prestigious poetry prize, the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize, especially valued by its recipients as the winner is chosen by her peers in the literary world. Elsa Cross' work over the past several decades has demonstrated a considerable fascination with Greece, and this sequence takes its departure from the island of Amorgos, in the Cyclades, home of remarkable ancient sculptures, and spectacular terrain.
Elsa Cross was born in Mexico City in 1946. The majority of her
work has been published in 2013 in her Collected Poems, from the
Fondo de Cultura Economica in Mexico City. Her book El divan de
Antar (1990) was awarded the Premio Nacional de Poesia
Aguascalientes (1989), and Moira (1993) won the Premio
Internacional de Poesia Jaime Sabines (1992), both in Mexico.
Jaguar (2002), was inspired by different symbols and places of
ancient Mexico. Some more recent books form a trilogy: Los suenos -
Elegias, Ultramar - Odas, and El vino de las cosas, Ditirambos.
Books in other countries include a wide selection of her poetry,
Miroir au soleil (Brussels, 1996) translated into French by Fernand
Verhesen with a foreword by Octavio Paz, and other titles published
in Canada and Spain. Her poems have been translated into twelve
languages and published in magazines and more than sixty
anthologies in different countries. She has also published essays.
She has an MA and PhD in Philosophy from the National Autonomous
University of Mexico, where she holds a professorship and teaches
Philosophy of Religion and Comparative Mythology.
In 2008 Elsa Cross was awarded the most prestigious poetry prize in
Mexico, the Xavier Villurrutia Prize, an award that she shared with
Pura Lopez-Colome.
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