RHAPSODY OF THE SOUTH
In memory of Susy
Dembo,
Holocaust survivor
With
the wandering dragonfly's gait
you
bequeathed us the verb, the color and the life
in
your twilight warp
of
sand
with
yielded footprints
surrendered
winds
drizzle.
Today
we are
reeds
and links
messengers
and enigmas
and
hazy hourglasses
of
undoubted
POETRY.
“Dear Beatriz, your texts are very touching and truly poetic about a subject which is not easy to write about. And it is not only a Jewish pain but also a human tragedy.” Eliahu Toker, argentine poet, Buenos Aires, 2001.
"Your poetic work, your examination of these ghostly mistakes of humanity, commits us to be alert to the personal and collective processes through which we wander clumsily”. Dr. Susana D. Castillo, american professor and researcher, San Diego State University, California, 2009.
In 2015 Venezuelan composer Diana Arismendi wrote her work “In memoriam”, to commemorate the Holocaust, and the second movement was inspired in I was in Auschwitz… The concert was organized by Espacio Anna Frank from Caracas with the participation of Venezuela’s Symphony Orchestra directed by master Alfredo Rugeles.
From 2015 to 2025, her poems dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust have been read on radio programs, at commemorative events, and published in magazines in Europe and America.
In 2023 in Spain, the Amlega Association read their poem “Numbers” during the Pink Holocaust events at various universities across the country.
I have dreamed of you so much FREEDOM de Beatriz Iriart, cover by Claudia Patricia Lopez Osornio and graphic design by Jairo Carthy, in AMAZON:
I have dreamed of you so much FREEDOM
