The prestigious Argentine poet Beatriz Iriart pays tribute to Susy Dembo in her new book "Te he soñado tanto LIBERTAD/I have dreamed of you so much FREEDOM", revista Ediciones Choroní, 11 de octubre de 2025

 

RHAPSODY OF THE SOUTH

 

 

In memory of Susy Dembo,

Holocaust survivor

 

 

 

With the wandering dragonfly's gait

you bequeathed us the verb, the color and the life

in your twilight warp

of sand

with yielded footprints

surrendered winds

drizzle.

Today we are

reeds and links

messengers and enigmas

and hazy hourglasses

of undoubted

POETRY.

 

©Beatriz Iriart

 

“Dear Beatriz, your texts are very touching and truly poetic about a subject which is not easy to write about. And it is not only a Jewish pain but also a human tragedy.” Eliahu Toker, argentine poet, Buenos Aires, 2001.

"Your poetic work, your examination of these ghostly mistakes of humanity, commits us to be alert to the personal and collective processes through which we wander clumsily”. Dr. Susana D. Castillo, american professor and researcher, San Diego State University, California, 2009.





Beatriz Iriart is an Argentine poet. She is a member of the Society of Latin American Writers of California and International Chapter on the Internet (SELC and CII) in the United States.
In 2015 Venezuelan composer Diana Arismendi wrote her work “In memoriam”, to commemorate the Holocaust, and the second movement was inspired in I was in Auschwitz… The concert was organized by Espacio Anna Frank from Caracas with the participation of Venezuela’s Symphony Orchestra directed by master Alfredo Rugeles.
From 2015 to 2025, her poems dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust have been read on radio programs, at commemorative events, and published in magazines in Europe and America.
In 2023 in Spain, the Amlega Association read their poem “Numbers” during the Pink Holocaust events at various universities across the country.



I have dreamed of you so much FREEDOM de Beatriz Iriart, cover by Claudia Patricia Lopez Osornio and graphic design by Jairo Carthy, in AMAZON:

I have dreamed of you so much FREEDOM

Beatriz Iriart, poet: “By when I was 10, I was an old woman already. Writing poetry was a way of transmuting that pain” / book INTERVIEWS by Viviana Marcela Iriart (Amazon, 2025)

 

Julio Cortázar, writer: "A day in my life is always a beautiful thing, because I am very happy to be alive"

Esther Dita Kohn de Cohen, founder of the Anna Frank Space: (in the Holocaust, the family) "there were more or less about 500 people; we don't know exactly how many were killed, that was terrible”

Julio Emilio Moliné, co-director “Joan​ Baez in Latin America: There but for fortune” (clandestine documentary, 1981): “Joan received death threats, and was banned, persecuted…”

Elisa Lerner, writer: “Solitude is the writer's homeland”

Susy Dembo, visual artist: "Engraving is alchemical, it is magical"

Nava Semel, writer:  And the Rat​ Laughed with Jane Fonda

José Pulido, poet: “I'm like a castaway clinging to his tongue”

Rolando Peña, visual artist: "We baptized the group in a bathtub, and the godfather was Andy Warhol"

Carlos Giménez, theater director: “Our country is the empire of consummated facts, of de facto culture”

Beatriz Iriart, poet: “By when I was 10, I was an old woman already. Writing poetry was a way of transmuting that pain”

Dinapiera Di Donato, poet: "Imagination creates versions of life, but I cannot understand life without a version."

María Lamadrid, founder of "África Vive": “We are the first disappeared people in Argentina”

Mariana Rondón, filmmaker: "During my childhood, I thought cinema was only​ one movie: Yellow Submarine"

Roland Streuli, photographer: “My life is color, I am not an opaque or black and white person”

INTERVIEWS, with graphic design by Jairo Carthy, is available on  AMAZON in paperback and ebook versions.