Wachibal Q'ijil. Las caras del tiempo
Guatemala: Piedrasanta, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 259p., illus., indices, wrps. New. Item #79671
ISBN: 9789929771123
Humberto Ak'abal unites the writer's craft with the sensitivity of a gaze trained to illuminate, producing poetic flashes in everyday experiences that, because they are repeated and familiar, become somber and flat. His poetic vision makes them transparent and changes their color; he manages that the trees offer walkers a drink of shade, that a tortilla lights up the night on the comal the sky. He does not put things in a suitcase where they turn gray and old, but in a place where they are renewed and change color, and are not heavy. The greatness of his poetry does not require complex words. How much philosophy is not contained in the simple words "do not let yesterday go away"
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