Poetry
Muerto de risa
Not translated into English
Hernández D'Jesús · 1968
Synopsis
By arbitrated exception, and for lack of any source that describes this first collection poem by poem, this synopsis says only the place that the author and his bibliographies give it. It opens the family series of the work, which turns the world of the family into fable and continues with Mi abuelo primaveral y sudoroso, Mi sagrada familia and Mi abuelo volvió del fuego: the grandfather returns from book to book, even in the titles.
Context
The collection appeared in Caracas in 1968 from Monte Ávila, at the beginning of its author's literary career. It opens a series that he continued in 1974, 1978 and 1980, and which his curriculum presents as the transformation of the family world into fable. A poet, he is also a photographer: he has exhibited since 1978 in Venezuela, Italy, Spain and Puerto Rico, and showed in Rome in 1980 the series Estamos en los muñecos. His poetry later took an experimental turn with Nuevo vestuario, presented in 2012.
Who it is for
A first collection in Spanish, untranslated; it is best read as the entry point to a series whose later books take up the characters again.
Prizes and reception
The author's first book, and the opening of the family series that his poetry continued from 1968 to 1980.
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