‘Auroras: for the Voice of María Zambrano’ is now published in Issue 12 of Socrates on the Beach.
A text (a record) of reading and writing in conversation, friendship, transcelation and reverb; of Zambrano’s book Of Aurora; of auroras o roar us.
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We speak:
Aurora raw.
Aurora aura.
Aurora, roar us.
Before she speaks, I say: For some time now aurora. Aurora roars. Roars the inner hum of writing with you as it becomes written, exceeds words; the hum of my conversations with three friends, which give me life and the need to continue to speak, those far away friendships which have brought me here to speak with you, to you, of you. Of your aurora o roar us. These conversations in transit are the secret of my persistence. They are here, delicate and present like a cobweb, weighed with the liquid load of morning dew. The force of our writing is not solely in what is written but in its auroral state: the anticipation, the restless yearning for it, and its aftertaste, its slow fade-out leading always inevitably in. And in there, all the voices heard and studied for a lifetime and farther, those books that are not temporary objects of an ephemeral reading but sites that host infinite conversations and times, sites that contain people and they ask me, in the voice of the writer of a thousand thoughts in flight, ‘Tell me, do you want to retrace the eternal cycle with us?’
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