Alalá

Arteidolia Press 2024 In Sofía Ruvira's shining poetry collection Alalá we witness the birth pains of words from the womb of a great young Spanish poet from Galicia, who is experiencing the eternal pressure of a young artist's life in New York City. "Just like a brick placed in the in-between of these languages”. She takes us on a confessional journey, moving from her post-migrant's poetic melancholia to a newly baked, more joyful Yankee's Alas. Ruvira's poems, written in English, and interwoven with golden threads of Galician words, occasionally morph beautifully into crafted typographic Concrete Poetry. Her New-York-School-Of-The-Moment poetic observations and journal entries are her acid etchings onto the walls of The City, where the background counts as much as the writing on the surface. Frank Hentschker The Graduate Center CUNY