When I studied the
four years of Secondary School and the three years of the Preuniversity, the
Ministry of Education excluded from American poetry so many poets and poetesses
who marked the path of modern Cuban poets.
And see that there were so many in the
Universe of poetry that spurred us, for ideological reasons, erotic or language
too cryptic for our age.
First they did not speak to us in any year of
study to the exalted Cuban poetess DULCE MARIA LOINAZ who still lived in her
house of the capital city. She never support the Castro or condemn him. She
immersed herself in the secrecy of her loneliness and confinement, only
violated by the visit of some poets who also despised the new society imposed
on us by the Castros.
Of mambisa lineage on the part of father
Enrique Loinaz del Castillo, author of the Invader anthem. In her past there
were poetesses of the stature of Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda and other
figures who contributed to the fight against the Spanish colony.
She published many poems among which stands
out JARDIN-Garden-. In her work she used the so-called "magical
realism" pioneer in this style that decades later used Gabriel García Márquez.I
t was her apolitical attitude to the new
regime that isolated her from society. Other countries, USA, Spain, claimed to
go into exile. But she remained firm in her rooms. She once said:
-I am the daughter of one who fought for the
freedom of Cuba, who has to leave is the son of whom I wanted to remain a
colony.
She received the Cervantes Prize in 1992, the
Order of Isabel the Catholic. She was elected a member of the Cuban Academy of
the Language that she presided until her death. The Cervantes Prize and the
Felix Varela Order.
She got married
twice. She did not have offspring.
When the Castros realized that they could not
silence her figure and her height as a poet, they paid her honors that she
rejected in silence and some interviews where she did not qualify or condemn
the Castro regime.
She died on April 27, 1997 and was buried in
the pantheon of the Loinaz.
Her silence about the Castro regime or the
lack of criticism against the system was the only way to express her isolation
from a society she did not feel part of.
She remained faithful
to the Catholic Church until the end. Like a lily in her garden she remained
cloistered in her mansion faithful to the numerous poetesses of the world who
did the same as the famous posthumously American poet Emily Dickinson who also
robbed us in the educational system.
Fragile flower that fell quietly before the
tyranny that surrounded it.
That's why in my years of study they did not
let us know the Loinaz, but their poetry speaks for itself to the sensitive
souls of the faithful Cuban and to the whole world.
ORLANDO VICENTE ALVAREZ
ORLANDO VICENTE ALVAREZ
