Poetry
Al calor del fogón
Not translated into English
Daniel Laínez · 1955
Synopsis
Twenty-two poems, subtitled regional poems. Several carry the spoken language of the countryside even into their titles, “Pa' qué venís con cuentos”, “Agora ye's tarde”, “Me van a pelder el miedo”; others paint village life, a day of the dead, a romería, the exit from Mass, the national holiday, or praise the humble tortilla. Portraits of popular figures, Máximo Tepas, Silverio Sosa, El Grencho, find a place in them.
Context
The collection came out in 1955 from the Ariston typographic workshops in Tegucigalpa, with the subtitle regional poems; some bibliographies make it two books of the same year. It takes its place among a dozen verse collections that its author published from 1935 to 1956. One of the poems bears the title of the comedy its author had staged in 1946, and another that of his story collection, also published in 1946.
Who it is for
Short poems, in Spanish, without translation; the regional turns of phrase make the reading more demanding than their simplicity suggests.
Prizes and reception
Published a year before the national prize awarded to its author, the collection is now digitised by the national university.
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