Versas y diversas: voices that make visible bodies, sexuality and identities through poetry

Abstract

Paulina Rojas and Odette Alonso coordinate Versas y diversas.  Muestra de poesía lésbica mexicana contemporánea (2021) with different lesbian writers. In this work it will be shown that some poems use common references to redefine them and focus on the body, language and symbolic space of lesbian women and sexual diversity to make them intelligible through discourse. They use nostalgia, silence, metaphors, geography, irony, pop culture, meta-literature and writing to achieve this. This will be supported by Judith Butler in Bodies that Matter and Adrienne Rich in Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence to reinforce the resignification of language and lesbian visibility.