Poetry
Her poems are surrealist in the way that they try to express the world in an innocent way from the inner space's point of view, yet they cannot prevent cruelty from coming into them from the outside world. This attempt to find perfection with every new poem has, according to Mario Vargas Llosa who used Varela's poem Ternera acosada por tábanos (Calf tortured by horse-flies) as a notable example of her philosophy, "the quality of heroes from ancient myths who die, but fight to the very last moment anyway."
Her books have been translated into English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Czech.
Collections of poetry
- Ese puerto existe (That port exists), 1959
- Luz de día (Daylight), 1963
- Valses y otras falsas confesiones (Waltzes and other false confessions), 1971
- Ejercicios materiales (Material exercises), 1978 - 1993
- Canto Villano (Song of dirtiness), 1978
- Camino a Babel (Road to Babel), 1986
- El libro de barro (The Book of Clay), 1993 - 1994
- Concierto animal (Animals' concert), 1999
- El falso teclado (The Fake Keyboard), 2001
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“For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.”
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“Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.”
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