Poetisa Clementina (2014) Drawing by Thommy

Title of the work: Poetisa Clementina
Tomas Amaya
Carbon pencil on letter paper
2014

Poetisa Clementina Suárez Zelaya, QDDG
He was born on May 14, 1902 in the town of Juticalpa, department of Olancho, in the Republic of Honduras. Married to the famous painter and sculptor José Mejía Vides; Clementina Suárez is one of the fundamental names of avant-garde Honduran poetry.

Clementina Suaréz was the daughter of the marriage between Mr. Luis Suaréz and Mrs. Amelia Zelaya Bustillo, as well as the great-granddaughter of the lawyer and politician Felipe Bustillo provisional president of the state in 1848 and granddaughter of the marriage composed of Nicolasa Bustillo Ayala and Adán Zelaya.

Clementina Suárez, was a passionate Bohemia of the cafes. Since she was a little girl she used to go where she wanted and do what she wanted. It did not bother her to be the only woman who frequented the tobacconist of "Mamá llaca" in the La Ronda neighborhood of Tegucigalpa.

She was a woman who adored the company of men in all forms, she loved being surrounded by talents, energy and ideas. In fact, Clementina's education was the people.

Clementina Suarez was called the "New Woman" of Honduras. He was wearing shorts and a swimsuit; He celebrated his body not only in his life but also in his poetry. It was liberated, independent and frank. Tegucigalpa was scandalized and intrigued by her. And although she was the first woman to publish a book in Honduras, people were more interested in their lovers than in their poetry.

In December of 1991 the delinquency was merciless with this noble Poet. The Poet Roberto Sosa gave him his last interview. Woman and Poet Or to be more complete with its indivisible human condition: Woman Poet. Clementina Suarez is like this: Woman by the grace of her sex, which she has known how to exalt to levels far above the usual muérgano; and Poet by inclaudicable destination, the only one of its kind that has achieved here, until today, to exercise such an office with sufficient property and transcendence.

If there were only one word to extract his long life trajectory, I would propose: intensity to the last drop of light possible. For that reason, Clementina Suárez has professed at the same time the most legitimate of loyalties: authenticity, which supposes, in spite of what has been established, not to let oneself be subjugated by that one, not to give obedience to its various and varied fueros. She has lived to grow. His heart, firearm, has pierced cleanly the shells of fixity, surrender or compliance. To live intensely is to endure, but only the voluble, the irreducible, the inordinate last. His words could be the words of the immortal Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector: "I do not want the terrible limitation of the one who lives only from that capable of making sense".

In the same way his poetry has not been alienated, in any of his verses, to such a beautiful destiny. Life and work have grown braided, coyuntadas by the firm and fecund passion to exist, to endure. The work of Clementina Suárez is, therefore, one of the most genuine and exemplary testimonies that can be found within the literary tradition of Honduras. Not knowing his name, however effusive of a goat that abounds in an environment like ours, would be like depriving our lyrics and, why not, a significant period of the current Honduran cultural formation, a voice, an attitude with foundational characters. Life and work are erected, therefore, in predecessors milestones of a way of doing, in a way of being iconoclastic, eclosive, undoubtedly necessary to enhance any process of material and spiritual transformation, as defined by the Poet Rigoberto Paredes to this Poet Honduran

In 1970 he received the National Prize for Literature "Ramón Rosa".

Information taken from Wikipedia

Currently there is an art gallery with his name in the Rotary Building where he is given the opportunity to expose all the artists who wish to do so and in which you will find several portraits of her and among them one of my drawings when she is already I was a little advanced in age.