“…we are the depths of the salt(…)we wander the water house(…)where our names are the clarity of false territories…”
From “Parsley”, Water House (2021)
~ Ivonne Gordon
Ivonne Gordon with the book "Intimate Inventory of Things" presented anonymously will receive the tenth Edition for being one of the two winners of the prestigious Pilar Fernández Labrador Award for Ibero-American poets.
There were 1,503 unpublished books submitted from 29 countries. The quality of the poetry was of the highest level, which makes this honor even higher.
She will be traveling to Salamanca, Spain in October to receive this prestigious award as well as the publication of one of the winning book, Intimate Inventory of Things.
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Water House
I Premio de Poesía “Poeta en Nueva York”
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Ivonne is an internationally recognized important voice as an Ecuadorian and Latin American poet. Her poetry has received several prestigious awards. Ivonne has published over ten books of poetry across three decades with publishers in Europe and Latin America.
Woven with voyages, ovens, and water-water, Ivonne Gordon examines and flows in and out of love's bodies of "tiempo fosforescente," phosphorescent time and solitude. Each poem is caught in currents and moments of astral montages, the possibility of miracles, a task cascading between nothingness and desire. All these things are palpable, they can be shaped on a kitchen table and paradoxically all is water-like, held up by constant change and impermanence. This is a text of wisdom, a sea-green collection of questions that slip between your fingers as if you were holding the starry ocean glimmers of love, the brush of timelessness, a leaping wave appearing and disappearing. An incredible accomplishment of art, philosophy and music in every line – Bravo!"
- Juan Felipe Herrera, Poet Laureate of the United States, Emeritus