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Argentinian poet Edgar Bayley talks with Esteban Peicovich about the meaning of poetry in Bayley's life. Bayley describes his poetry as love or erotic poetry, and discusses the importance of loving oneself, good versus evil, and how man is the owner of his own destiny.
Esteban Peicovich interviews the Peruvian writer, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, in Madrid, Spain in 2005. Bryce Echenique has published his latest book, Permiso para vivir, an autobiography. He talks about his family, his education in law, his aspirations to be a soccer player and his life as a writer in France. He describes his writing styles and how he deals with the reality in his stories. His short stories and novels include La felicidad ja ja, Huerto cerrado, Un mundo para Julius, Tantas veces Pedro, La vida exagerada de Martín Romaña, La àltima mudanza de Felipe Carrillo, Dos señoras conversan, El hombre que hablaba de Octavia de Cádiz, Croinicas personales and Permiso para vivir (antimemorias). During the interview Bryce Echenique reads a chapter from his latest book and a short story from his first book.
Biagioni reads some of her poems and talks about her poetry, prizes won in poetry contests, and hunting as a recurring theme in her poems. She also talks about the publication histories of her books, her beginnings as a poet, and some of the writers who have influenced her.
Biagioni continues her interview with Esteban Peicovich. She talks about the book, La medicina floral de Edward Bach by Maria Luisa Pastorino and how her health improved following her reading of this book. She also discusses her religious and spiritual beliefs, her poems, her acquaintances, and her trips to Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. The interview ends with a long discussion on Biagioni's favorite classic poets (Quevedo, Garcilaso de la Vega, Borges, Rilke) and a lecture she gave as a guest lecturer in a university literature class in Argentina.
Continuation of an interview with Argentinian poet Edgar Bayley. He talks about the origin of his name, his family and childhood memories, and some of the poets who influenced his life. He also talks about discusses poetry in general and the process behind writing poems. He also reads several of his poems.
Venezuelan poet Igor Barreto talks about his book, Soy el muchacho más hermoso de esta ciudad. He describes his how he aims as a poet to portray natural landscapes in a more realistic, less romantic way. He also describes the six years he spent in Bucarest, Romania, studying cinematography and drama, where he met Marin Sorescu, a Romanian poet. Throughout the interview, Barreto reads poems from his various books.
The end of an interview with Venezuelan poet Igor Barreto. He talks about the six years he spent as a cinematography student in Romania and about his meeting with Martin Sorescu, a Romanian poet who inspired the name of his book, Soy el muchacho más hermoso de esta ciudad. He also discusses Venezuelan poetry and reads poems from his various books.
Esteban Peicovich talks with Argentine writer Irina Bogdachevsky about her work translating poems of three Argentine poets (Olga Orozco, Juan Gelman, and Mario Porro) and one Uruguayan poet (Idea Vilariño) from Spanish to Russian and vice versa. Bogdachevsky talks about the state of Russian literature in the last years and describes the different political situations that took place for many Russian writers.
Esteban Peicovich and Irina Bogdachevsky continue their interview in La Plata. They talk about the great Russian poets including Pushkin, Lermontov, Fet, Koltsov, Solovyov, Bely, Blok, Mayakovsky, Esenin, Tsvetaeva, Okudzhava, Akhmatova, Akhmadulina, Khlebnikov, Pasternak, Tarkowski, Brodsky and Nabokov, and the different movements they represented. Some of the movements discussed are the Russian symbolism, futuristic and acmeism movements. During the interview Bogdachevsky reads poems she translated from Russian to Spanish and vice versa.
During his interview with Esteban Peicovich, Isidoro Blaisten talks about what a poet is, his literary works, his workshops on literary writing, his beginnings as a writer and writers who influenced his works. Blaisten mainly focuses on his latest book, Cuando éramos felices, which he describes as a combination of autobiography, short stories and views on literature in Argentina. Some of his short stories were inspired by the many different jobs he had as graphic novelist, publishing writer, journalist, photographer and bookseller. Throughout the interview, Blaisten reads several of his short stories and poems.
