Victoria Guerrero Peirano is a poet, teacher, and feminist activist. Her recent publication Y la muerte no tendrá dominio (2019) won the 2020 National Literature Prize. She is the author of five poetry collections, including a compilation of her poetry, Documentos de Barbarie (poetry 2002–2012) (2013), which won ProART in 2015. She cares about her dog and cat. She survives by teaching at the university.
Anna
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“Now I know how faces disappear,
how terror nests under eyelids,” wrote Anna,
Anna Akhmatova.
Can you understand such suffering?
While I read her, I lie stiff on the bed.
She, Anna, has…