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Carmen Boullosa, born on September 4, 1954, is a renowned Mexican poet. Her poetry is known for its unique style and profound emotional expression, which has won her a wide audience.

Cleopatra Dismounts: A Novel

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“Women are allowed to enter the spaces of the senses, the space of the body, the spaces opened by sensations, all kinds of feelings, but women are not allowed to enter the spaces of reason to the same extent, that is to say the space of ideas, political ideas.”

Kind Ideas Reason Feelings Body Political Women Space Senses All Kinds Sensations

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“Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to make the stone human.”

Writing Humans Language Stones Richness

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“I was an angel of the desert. In your arms I broke my wings.”

Arms Angel Wings Broke Desert

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“The name Cleopatra wakens the world to life.”

World Names

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“I love to tell stories. I love to tell stories the way I tell them, not the way anybody else tells them. I am all the time writing a novel.”

Way Writing Stories Novel

Author:Carmen Boullosa

“In Catholicism, you learn to worship a superior god that creates, who organizes and creates. And when you do novels, you have this illusion that you are following the model of the creator, that you are playing the creator who has to organize that. It is a vice and a sin, and I like to sin. I'm a vicious person.”

Persons Sin Novel Worship Models Illusion Vices Following Creator Superiors Catholicism Organize Vicious

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“Some people die, others just run out of fuel.”

People Running Death Dies Fuel

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Born: September 4, 1954
Known for: Poet
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