Featured on: Bell Tower, My Lifelong Love
Collaborator: Alicia Partnoy (poem)
Song Type: art song, female, male, very short song
Associated Artists: Kate Baldwin, Laura Osnes, Andréa Burns
Music by Georgia Stitt
Original poem by Alicia Partnoy from the book Revenge of the Apple, Cleis Press, S. Fco. 1992, Translated by Richard Schaaf.
©2008 Geocate Music (ASCAP) and Alicia Partnoy
LYRICS:
I am talking to you about poetry
And when you say
When do we eat.
The worst of it is
I’m hungry too.
Partnoy, an Argentina-born poet and activist, was abducted by the Argentinian army in 1977 following the death of Juan Perón and the ensuing military coup. A member of the Peronist Youth Movement, she became a political prisoner who lived for three years in a concentration camp and then a prison. Upon her release, she came to the United States as a refugee, earned a PhD, and taught Spanish language and literature for many years at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
