Podría hablaros, eso sí, de una poeta india que podría ser una heroína contemporánea. Se llama Tishani Doshi (mirad en su página web www.tishanidoshi.com) y es bailarina, poeta, periodista, viajera y novelista. Además, es una belleza. Un descubrimiento, la verdad, y dará qué hablar:
The Day we went to the Sea

by Tishani Doshi,
Won the 2005 British Council-supported
All India Poetry Competition
The day we went to the sea
mothers in Madras were mining
the Marina for missing children.
Thatch flew in the sky, prisoners
ran free, houses danced like danger
in the wind. I saw a woman hold
the tattered edge of the world
in her hand, look past the temple
which was still standing, as she was —
miraculously whole in the debris of gaudy
South Indian sun. When she moved
her other hand across her brow,
in a single arcing sweep of grace,
it was as if she alone could alter things,
bring us to the wordless safety of our beds.
'The Day we went to the Sea' was written
in Madras after the tsunami of 2004.
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