Poetry
Balizaje
Not translated into English
Rafael Arráiz Lucca · 1983
Synopsis
No source describes this first collection; only its place in the body of work is known. The book appeared with the small press of a group of young poets whom the author had led since 1981, and opens a series of three collections from the eighties, continued with Terrenos and Almacén. The poems of the latter, the only ones the sources reproduce from this period, look at ordinary life: a man puts away a woman's belongings before leaving her, two neighbouring cacti ignore each other, a house is no more than a point seen from an aeroplane.
Context
The volume, of sixty pages, came out in Caracas from Ediciones del Guaire, the house of the Guaire group, founded in 1981 and led by the author, which brought together mainly students of his university, among them Armando Coll, Javier Lasarte, Leonardo Padrón, Luis Enrique Pérez Oramas and Nelson Rivera. The first of three collections published in the decade, with Terrenos from Mandorla in 1985 and Almacén from Fundarte in 1988, it precedes a career as essayist, historian and editor that the journal Inti already summed up in 1997 by the journal Imagen, the Galería de Arte Nacional and Monte Ávila.
Who it is for
A first book of poems in Spanish, with no translation, of about sixty pages, published by the publisher of his own group.
Prizes and reception
First book by the leader of the Guaire group, and the start of a poetic body of work he has continued ever since.
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