„Stachura en cuarto menguante”. Nowe ustanowienie Edwarda Stachury i Amereidy

Abstract

This paper proposes a geopoetic interpretation of an unknown thread of Edward Stachura’s biography, related to the Polish writer’s stay in Paris, where he met, among others, the poets Michel Deguy and Edison Simons, participants of the expedition of the so-called traves´ıa de Amereida (1965). The starting point of the discussion is the analysis of a sentence from a Latin American poem Amereida (1967) “hoy soy todos los mendigos / a cuerpo de rey / con / stachura en cuarto menguante” [today I am all the beggars / with the body of a king / with / stachura in the last quarter]. The author interprets the surprising fact of finding “stachura” in a text written during a South American expedition, when a group of poets, architects, and sculptors led by Godofredo Iommi (Godo) explored the unknown “inner sea”. She also draws attention to the role of Juan Pablo Iommi Amunátegui, Godo’s son, in the last years of Stachura’s life. The following interpretation is inspired by the concept proposed by Vinciane Despret. She calls them the dead ”geographers” who establish other places, routes, and stories. It is part of the research on the manifestations of the complicated relations of the living and the dead.