Luces altas, luces de peligro
Creator: Gladys Mendía
Title: Luces altas, luces de peligro
Publisher: LP5 Editora
Date: 2022
Language: Spanish
Description: "Gladys Mendía has tossed into the air the coin she has been minting for fifteen years. This time, the imprint of El cantar de los manglares lands face down, revealing a poetry that is clearer—just as the title, Luces altas luces de peligro (High Beams, Danger Lights), suggests. With her keen ear, Latin America now takes center stage in her work, portrayed through the prose of its excesses and contradictions, in an effort to name what is ours. The author has traveled and read every corner of the continent, becoming an ideal voice for the syncretism of its local traditions. She answers us only to make us question again—about identity, about what we are in the cosmos, in the autistic spectrum, in abandonment and pain, as well as in the celebration of difference, both human and stylistic, within the composition of her verses. Here, poetry is sensorial—perplexed and courageous in the face of injustice. It articulates the ephemeral and its beauty, engaging in dialogue with the thoughts of others, giving them new colors with the sheer desire for the infinite. "The tiger believes it chooses / when it hunts a deer," she writes, with precision. As we move through the book, we also feel the urge to linger, to remain within each paradox, in the warm spaces of Mendía’s words—now in conversation with photography and brevity. In Luces altas luces de peligro, the poems distill meaning in the same way friendships deepen—until they share and cherish silence." (LP5 Editora, translated from Spanish by Archivo Venezuela).
Subject: Literature, poetry, Venezuela, Gladys Mendía.
Type: Text
Format: Printed book
Rights: External reference
Relation:
Review by José Antequera.
Review by Susanna González Turigas.
Reading of a selection of poems from Luces altas, luces de peligro.
Identifier: LIT0012
Collection: Poetry
Tags: Gladys Mendía, Literature, poetry, Venezuela
Citation: Gladys Mendía, Luces altas, luces de peligro, LP5 Editora, 2022, accessed September 22, 2026, https://archivovenezuela.com/en/items/show/167