Soviet Girl / Nina Sovietica

With "Soviet Girl" Liria Evangelista establishes the foundational core of her poetic ethics: poetry is only at the moment when it is being written, when it can no longer be postponed, because only in that instance, without attenuating, do those who write correspond with whom they are. That is to say, words correspond with memory and imagination. Eduardo Espina Con ese mismo hilo poderoso y a la vez delicado, ha escrito su libro Liria Evangelista. Parece frágil, pero sostiene el largo recorrido de la memoria: la escritura es un hilo de seda roto con el que se teje un relato ágil e intenso para así dar cuenta del imperfecto camino de la memoria. En él la que escribe--una "niña soviética" por las convicciones comunistas del padre--recorre los días de su infancia y de su juventud, y el suyo es sobre todo un camino epistemológico hecho de palabras que se transitaron y ahora se desandan a través de una ironía dolorosa y muy contenida que no cede a su propia narración.... María Angeles Pérez LópezWith a thread powerful and at the same time delicate, Liria Evangelista has written this book. It seems fragile, but it sustains the long path of memory (...) the writing is that thread of broken silk with which an agile and intense story is woven. The one who writes --a "Soviet Girl" who follows naively the communist convictions of the father--goes through the days of her childhood and youth, and hers is above all an epistemological path, made of words that were passed through and now come back through a painful and very contained irony that does not yield to its own narration... María Angeles Pérez López