Mi pecado es terrible;
quise llenar de estrellas
el corazón del hombre.
Por eso aquí entre rejas,
en diecinueve inviernos
perdí mis primaveras.
Preso desde mi infancia
ya muerte mi condena,
mis ojos van secando
su luz contra las piedras.
Mas no hay sombra de arcángel
vengador en mis venas:
España es sólo el grito
de mi dolor que sueña.
Marcos Ana
The publishing house Crocetti has just brought the translations rights of Marcos Ana’s extraordinary autobiography Decidme cómo es un árbol (”Tell Me What A Tree Looks Like”), which is beeing translated by Chiara De Luca and will be first presented in Parma and Bologna on June 2009, when Marcos Ana will be guest of the Parma International Poetry Festival.
Decidme cómo es un árbol will also become a film by Pedro Almodóvar
Marcos Ana was a young Communist activist, only 19 when he was captured and thrown in jail by the military forces of General Franco. He was imprisoned for 23 years, twice sentenced to death, often beaten and tortured. But his spirit was not broken and, inspired by the poems of Pablo Neruda, he wrote poems of his own, remembering the lines until he could actually write them down, sending them out into the world in the memories of his fellow prisoners when they were released. By the time he got out of prison, he was 41, internationally renowned for his poetry. In September 2007, he published his memoir, Decidme cómo es un árbol (”Tell Me What a Tree Looks Like”), and it has just been announced that Pedro Almodovar will make a film based on Ana’s autobiography.
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