Friday 24 March 2023, at 7.00 pm at the Provincial Library of Salerno (Via Laspro 1), as part of the project "THE BOOK THAT UNITES US", promoted by the President of the Province, Francesco Alfieri, by the Provincial Councilor delegated to Cultural Policies, Francesco Morra, by the Director of the Cultural Networks and Systems Sector, Eng. Gioita Caiazzo and edited by the House of Poetry, Baronissi / Salerno, TRIBUTE TO FRANCISCA AGUIRRE. The evening takes place within the exhibition "The footprint and the thread" by Gaetano Bevilacqua.
Francisca Aguirre, born in Alicante in 1930 and passed away on 13 April 2019, daughter of the painter Lorenzo Aguirre, victim of the Franco dictatorship, is one of the essential voices of the generation of Spanish poets born and raised under the sign of the Civil War. We will travel through her poetry, her personal and family history and the three books edited by Casa della Poesia, with the translation by Raffaella Marzano, "Paesaggi di carta" (a large and beautiful anthology of her poetry), "Mirror, mirror" (a magnificent poetic autobiography) and "Che stiri Rosa Luxemburg" (a collection of "autobiographical" short stories). On this journey we will meet her husband Felix Grande (important poet and flamencologist) and her daughter Guadalupe Grande (also a poet) and together with them (in video) also Juan Carlos Mestre and Juan Vicente Piqueras.
Francisca Aguirre published her first book of poems, "Ithaca", in 1972 in which the myth is seen from the female side. His work is crossed by the event of the Spanish Civil War, by themes of childhood, by a frequent recourse to classical mythology and by an insistent and obstinate preservation of memory as an instrument of salvation in the face of the injustice of ideological and existential oblivion.
His first six books of poetry were collected under the title "Ensayo General (complete poetry 1966-2000)". He later published "La Herida Absurda" (2006), "Nanas para dormir desperdicios" (2008), "Historia de una nato" (2010) and "Conversaciones con mi animal de compañia" (2012). He published with Multimedia Edizioni "Paesaggi di carta", "Mirror, mirror", "Che stiri Rosa Luxemburg", all translated by Raffaella Marzano. Among the many awards he received the prestigious Premio Nacional de las Letras Españolas in 2018.