El cuerpo herido, en Noche sobre el grito de Ana María Martínez Sagi

Our article reflects on the presence of the body in the latest poetry of Ana María Martínez Sagi (Barcelona, 1907 – Moià, Barcelona, 2000), focusing on the collection Noche sobre el grito, written in the years from 1955 to 1970 and published for the first time in 2019, in the unpublished section of the extensive anthology La voz sola (Sagi, 2019: 105-141) edited by Juan Manuel de Prada. It is necessary to point out that, to date, there are no studies or scientific commentary of Noche sobre el grito, a collection of poems that maintains a distance from the primary content of the other literary works by Martínez Sagi, that is, from love and the pain caused by its loss. After contextualizing the author and the book within the framework of the literary commitment, the poems of Noche sobre el grito will be classified into three thematic nuclei: the experience of death, the exile and the longed-for return, the chimera of a Spain that no longer exists. In each one of them, the language of the body will be analyzed as a means to express the author’s heterodoxy and her suffering due to the injustices of the Spanish civil war, the dictatorship, the exile and the disappointment when she comes back to her country. Finally, with a quick look at each of her collections of poems, from Camino (1929) to La voz sola (2019), a final assessment will be proposed about the presence of corporeal elements in Noche sobre el grito and in the other works of Martínez Sagi.