Margarita Losada Vargas ( Neiva - Huila, Colombia, 1983) is the author of the book Mejor arder (Común Presencia Editores, 2013) and co-author of La persistencia de lo inútil (Trilce Editories, 2016). She was included in the bilingual poetry anthology (Spanish – French) Vientre de luz (Ventre de lumier): 14 poetas colombianas + Jattin. She received the First Honorary Mention in the National Poetry Contest Casa de Poesía Silva, and also received an Honorary Mention in the Thought and Neverending Story Contests of CINOE (Spain) and COMOARTES (Mexico). Besides writing poems, she works as a psychologist and a university professor.
García Márquez has invented a fantastic imaginary country of his own with its pertinent mythology of persons and events, recurrent in all his books, linked by allusion, with themes taken…
In times of disorder,
of organized confusion,
of dehumanized humanity,
nothing should seem natural.
They die by the thousands. The plague takes two shapes: respiratory, with fever and blood, or bubonic, with abscesses and furuncles. It is 1348 and Boccaccio writes the Decameron….
