Lot’s Feud

Luisa Futoransky

1972

At the time for words, father, my adonai, leave it in my hands, the
shame that I don’t feel, and assign to me the job of justification,
what they call history.
The fact is that every land has its favorite fruits and here it is not
rice that sprouts, wheat or coffee that flowers, nor are there gold,
metals, or gems to covet, but there never was or…
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Creator Bio

Luisa Futoransky

b. 1939

The poet and novelist Luisa Futoransky was born in Buenos Aires. She studied music at the Conservatorio Municipal from 1953 to 1961. While in law school at the University of Buenos Aires in the late 1960s, she studied poetry with Jorge Luis Borges. In 1970, Futoransky attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop; her poetry has come to reflect the four decades of travel that followed, in which she explores themes of exile, language, and gender, often through Jewish motifs. From 1976 to 1981, she taught in China and Japan, before settling in France. Her works have been translated from Spanish into English, French, Hebrew, Portuguese, German, and Japanese.

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