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Poetry
Oscilación de péndulo
Not translated into English
Leopoldo Minaya · 1984
Synopsis
A poet's first book, gathering pieces in verse and prose written between his thirteenth and seventeenth years, which their author refused to have corrected.
Context
The collection was published in 1984, with a preface by the poet Rodolfo Coiscou Weber, who praised in this newcomer an assurance such that he would not let “a comma or a full stop” be changed. These early poems earned their author a place in the poetry anthology of the Diccionario enciclopédico dominicano, alongside the established authors of the two preceding centuries.
Who it is for
In Spanish; a book of beginnings, to be read for what it shows of an early vocation.
Prizes and reception
Youthful poems that brought their author, still an adolescent, into a national anthology.