Poetry
Poema estacional
Not translated into English
José Adán Castelar · 1989
Synopsis
A large collection in five parts, each of which brings together themes that echo one another. The Honduran landscape and time form its axis, a nature of which man is only the spectator. Between tender, limpid odes, such as “Cangrejo”, pass the descriptions and laments of men and women, love poems, and an attack on those who despise sensibility and beauty.
Context
The book was written around 1966; its author would say that in writing it he knew himself to be a poet. It appeared only in 1989 in Tegucigalpa, in the Premios series of the state cultural services; the bibliography given by El Heraldo nevertheless dates it to 1966. An online review sees in it a “realist” poetry, attached to ordinary reality rather than to metaphysics, and says it is indebted to a great Peruvian poet of the twentieth century. The author described it as plastic, musical, with a certain tenderness, and regretted that it was not reissued.
Who it is for
A collection of seventy-five pages, in Spanish, with no translation; a clear language, attached to the landscape and to ordinary things.
Prizes and reception
Poetry prize of the Honduran Directorate General of Culture in 1988, the Juan Ramón Molina Prize; the author saw it as his most accomplished book.
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