![]() Virtually all of this writing was produced in her youth and middle years, and published mostly in Spain, in the 1940s and 1950s, thanks to the efforts of her husband. ![]() She is best known for her poems, particularly Versos, 1920-1938, Ultimos Días de Una Casa ( Last Days of a House, 1958) and her Poemas sin nombre ( Nameless Poems, 1953), a collection of 124 prose poems, some only a sentence long, which she dedicated to her mother. Her complete oeuvre consists of one novel, a book of reminiscences about her stay in Tenerife (one of the Canary Islands and the birthplace of her second husband), scattered essays and literary lectures, and a few books of poetry that fit into a two hundred page volume. Yet Loynaz produced relatively little in a writing career that spanned eight decades. And there were many guests, a continuous parade of them, especially after 1992, the year Dulce María Loynaz was honored with the Miguel de Cervantes prize, the most prestigious award for writers of the Spanish language, bestowed by the King of Spain (and given only once before to a Cuban writer, the novelist Alejo Carpentier). Īll guests, I learned later, were told to come at five in the afternoon. Our meeting time, arranged in advance with her niece, who acted as Dulce María's manager, was always at five in the afternoon, the sacred hour at which a Spanish bullfighter met his death in the poem immortalized by Federico García Lorca. She had the kindness to receive me, several times, at her home, a mansion of ravaged elegance on 19 and E Street in the Vedado section of Havana, whose fenced courtyard is famous for its massive stone statue of a headless woman. But she was still lucid, wry, concise and sharp in her answers to questions, and listened attentively if you sat very close and read poetry to her. ![]() She was frail, almost blind, hard of hearing, and tired easily. The Associated Press contributed to this report.DULCE MARIA LOYNAZ WITH CUBAN WRITER PABLO ARMANDO FERNANDEZ AND RUTH BEHAR, 1995In 1993, when I first came to know Dulce María Loynaz, she had already turned ninety. They want to remind any potential witnesses that authorities are not concerned with immigration status and are focused on information surrounding Dulce’s disappearance. Her family is requesting help from dive and canine teams to continue the search.Īnyone with information is urged to contact the Bridgeton City Police Department at 85. Investigators say there is still a fifty-two-thousand-dollar reward for information leading to Dulce. She was last seen wearing a yellow shirt, black and white checkered pants with a floral design and white sandals. Police described Alavez as 3-foot-5 with a medium build and dark-colored hair. “Because 2 months is really a long time without her.” “He has to step forward so we can find my daughter as soon as possible,” said Perez. Dulce’s mother begs him to contact police. They believe he could have information about the case. Police still want to identify the man in the sketch who was spotted in the park the day Dulce disappeared. Perez says Dulce’s brother asks about her often: “It’s hard to explain to him because I don’t think he understands.” Officials have exercised different strategies to find her including helicopter searches, volunteer searches, media specialist, a dive team, sonar and teams of dogs searching. Her face can also be seen on the FBI’s Most Wanted Missing Persons list. Family members held up posters with her picture. Saturday night neighbors gathered for a prayer vigil around a circle of candles and princess balloons. “We are not going to stop looking for her until we find her.” It’s been 61 days since Dulce could hug her mom. She shares what she misses most: “Almost every day she would tell me she loves me.” The mystery of where her daughter could be keeps the nineteen-year-old mother up at night.
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