At the first glance I thought that I am going to read portraits of South America.
Then, I found myself reading and traveling through the poet\'s psyche. South America Mi Hija is a lengthy piece that draws my attention to its details and redundancy . It is a rhetorical and instructional discourse that the poet begins as she starts her journey with her daughter cruising Columbia, Peru, and Ecuador. The poet seems to me to analogize the landscape of both America and the psychology and anatomy of women\'s body. In this sense, she raises questions about feminine position, gender issues, and social system that govern the relationships between male and female, daughter and mother, man and woman, man and nature, husband and wife. It is also the journey of reunification of mother and daughter, a chance that the poet employs to fully communicate with her teenage child in a didactic way. It is also a journey into myths and legends but with good adaptation and contextualization.......
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