Ruth Irupé Sanabria

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A native of Argentina, Ruth Irupé Sanabria is the author of The Strange House Testifies, 2nd Place winner at the 2010 International Latino Book Awards. Her poems have appeared in Women Writing Resistance, Poets Against the War, and U.S. Latino Literature Today. She has read her poetry across the United States, Mexico, and Peru, and lives with her family in Perth Amboy, N.J.

Geometry

Before my mother runs away
with my father’s housemate
on a Greyhound,
leaving me behind,
this time voluntarily
but to her credit, temporarily,
she will host parties
where wine will agree
to forever follow solitude
in this and that one’s vessel,
where blue bellbottoms will
hustle and for old times, twist,
and I will ignore the dancers
and stand on a chair
before a night-fevered window,
drawing slow unstable circles.

Links

• Poet’s website
• “Latino/a Poetry Now: 2 Poets, 3 Countries,” Interview with William Archila and Lauro Vazquez. Poetry Society of America. 2012.
• “Poems, Paintings, Peace: Ruth Irupé Sanabria et al.” Eric Fillinger. Video of a presentation by three generations of Argentinian women at American University. February 2011.

Media

Reading with William Archila | March 20, 2012