Poetry
Cosas
Not translated into English
Luis Alberto Crespo · 1968
Synopsis
By arbitrated exception, and for lack of any source describing this first collection, a booklet of some twenty pages, this synopsis says only the manner that critics recognise in the work as a whole. Short poems, stretched between idea and image, that return to memory, to fleeting time and to death; a dry land beaten by the wind, showers over the countryside, merchants and their donkeys, a love left far away. The voice advances by questions and oppositions, what was and what was not.
Context
The chapbook appeared in Caracas in 1968, from Ediciones Poesía de Venezuela, the same year as a second collection, Si el verano es dilatado, and bibliographies do not agree on the order of the two books: the Medellín festival opens its list with the other, David Cortés Cabán with this one. The work thus begun continued up to No o nadie, in 2014, and Todo eso, in 2016, in which the essayist reads the same brevity and the same tension between concept and image. His poems have been translated into English, French, Italian, German, Hungarian, Hebrew and Arabic.
Who it is for
A booklet in Spanish, with no translation; the author's manner is that of the very short poem, to be read slowly.
Prizes and reception
First book of a poet honoured by the 2014 world poetry festival and translated into seven languages.
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