Poetry
El quinto silencio
Not translated into English
Alfonso Guillén Zelaya · 1994
Synopsis
About sixty poems, the only ones preserved from their author. Nature is their first subject: trees and water recur constantly, and the poet speaks to them until he merges with them. A rural childhood surfaces in a simple language that sometimes takes on the tone of conversation, and the collection takes its title from one of its poems, while another is called “Los dos silencios”.
Context
The poet never gathered his verse in his lifetime. The Editorial Universitaria of Tegucigalpa brought it together in 1994 in its series of poetry and tales, with a preface by a Honduran writer, forty-seven years after the author's death; his journalist's essays were in turn collected in two volumes in 1999. Only one piece from the collection has been translated into English and is held in the archive of the Academy of American Poets.
Who it is for
Short poems, about sixty, in Spanish, in simple language; no French translation of the collection.
Prizes and reception
The only volume of verse that survives from this poet and journalist, published by the National University of Honduras in 1994.
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