El campo a fin de cuentas no es tan verde
Medellín: Seix Barral, Editorial Planeta Colombiana (Biblioteca Breve), 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. 128p., indices, wrps. New. Item #79193
ISBN: 9786280001951
A radio show for insomniac listeners and night workers eager to win a couple of movie tickets. An anonymous poet whose only wish is to captain a sailboat across the Pacific. The noisy and incomprehensible conversation of a group of blind children playing in the pool. All these scenes, unconnected in appearance, are joined by the passionate search for poetry in the corners of everyday life, in perceptible silences and in ordinary words. After all, the field is not so green is a set of poetic chronicles built through a lens of curiosity about the insignificant, but also about language itself. With magnetic prose, each short story draws palpable images of memories, trips and casual encounters that explore the nooks and crannies of the momentary and question everything that is assumed to be conventional. By focusing on what is usually ignored, Víctor Gaviria vindicates the lyricism inherent in the stillness of existence through reflections that invoke the civil poetry of Evtushenko, the orthographic rebellion of Helí Ramírez and the melancholic nothingness of Pessoa. These narratives reflect the brilliance of static moments and invite the infinite search for everyday poetry.
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