Carmen Delia Cabrera the 'Woman poet' of Maspalomas

This Thursday, the San Bartolomé de Tirajana City Council facilitated the public presentation of the book 'Woman poet', the first collection of poems by the young Carmen Delia Cabrera Carreño, born in Valsequillo on May 10, 1994.

 

The event took place at the Maspalomas Cultural Center, as an activity for the dissemination and promotion of writing and reading organized by the municipal area of ​​Libraries of the Department of Culture directed by the first deputy mayor, Elena Álamo Vega, and coordinated by Councilor Esther Delgado Sánchez, who presented the poet, highlighting her “great sensitivity and enormous courage” when it came to capturing the vital epilogues of her life in this first book.

 

 

 

 

Carmen Delia Cabrera currently works as a shop assistant in a store in the municipality of Ingenio, but she declares herself a “writer since she was very little.” This first literary adventure is an intimate, raw and heartbreaking collection of poems, in which the author completely exposes her soul as a necessary tool to combat and overcome the old fears of loneliness and heartbreak that threatened and cruelly gripped her from the beginning. childhood.

 

'Woman poet', published on Calle de los Manantiales in Madrid by Diversidad Literaria, is a passport to life. The poet recognizes that each of the verses it contains are a faithful snapshot of her existential emotions, her defeats and her victories. Her sorrows rest in the collection of poems. She openly acknowledges that her poems allowed her to stay alive, because they were a protective umbrella against the torrential rain of “a toxic family.” She says, still distressed, that she decided to write it so that she would learn to appreciate it. “I hope now they see that I'm not that bad, that there was no reason for them to leave me aside,” she says. 

 

 

The writer points out that the poem that structures the arteries of this volume is dedicated to her mother, but also to the protagonist, who confesses in the first person. In 'I hope it doesn't continue to hurt', Cabrera Carreño narrates without restraints: "(...) that girl only wanted people to hug."

 

 

 

 

 

That is why Carmen Delia Cabrera affirms with total transparency and absolute frankness, even with resounding joy, that 'En Mujer Poeta' tells in verse her own personal experiences, “what I have lived and felt. Here I open my heart. I talk about love, heartbreak and even eroticism. I have expressed what I am not able to say by speaking. I hope my words reach far and many hearts,” says the author, feeling, she admits, “very proud” of her work. 

 

The poet hopes that “they do not judge the book by its cover”, illustrated with her own face as a sublime contribution to the human purity that her verses distill, a faithful reflection and essence of her own being. “It is preferable that they dedicate their time to learning about my first loves, or how you lose a mother even though she is still alive, or what it feels like to be bullied at school or how you experience family heartbreak.”

 

The Department of Culture proposes the acquisition of the work for its dissemination in the municipality's schools. “The strength of personal improvement that is expressed in this book can serve as an example for other people,” said councilor Esther Delgado in the presentation.