words by Roberto Zurbano Jesus Lara Sotelo’s poetic work started to be pronounced from an agonizing intimacy in a struggle with the aggressive exterior before which the lyrical subject has found no other choice but to face the evils of the world by force of moral and aesthetic reasons. This literary gesture is presented…
por: Roberto Zurbano La obra poética de Jesús Lara Sotelo se venía pronunciando desde una intimidad agonizante en lucha con un exterior agresivo ante el cual el sujeto lírico no ha hallado otro remedio que enfrentar los males del mundo a golpe de razones morales y estéticas; este gesto libertario se presenta con mayor…
words by María Elena Llana If in Jesus Lara’s poems is encouraged the author’s indeclinable alter ego, then in prose—poetic, of course—this same duality accompanies him in his wandering around dissimilar points of the world and feelings and in showing the colorful fresco of life as well as its dark spaces. It is enough…
por: María Elena Llana Si en los poemas de Jesús Lara alienta el alter ego indeclinable del pintor, en la prosa —poética por supuesto—, esa misma dualidad lo acompaña en su deambular por puntos disímiles del globo y de los sentimientos y le permite mostrar, tanto el fresco colorido de la vida como sus…
words by Alberto Guerra Naranjo To publish is to undress, so it said Leonor Acevedo, mother of Jorge Luis Borges when he arrived with Fervor de Buenos Aires under his arm, recently out of the press, back there in 1923. Those poems, she said, were meant only to be listened by the family, in…
words by Jesús David Curbelo If something bothers me and causes me pain regarding the most recent Cuban poetry is its lack of thinking, its intellectual poverty despite there is and/or “ is produced” a group of noteworthy writers—poets, narrators, essayists, playwrights—plus several well defined trends and pretty visible groups. I have said in…
por: Jesús David Curbelo Si algo me incomoda y a la vez me desconsuela de la poesía cubana más reciente, es su falta de pensamiento, su indigencia intelectual, a pesar de que existan y/o se «fabriquen» un conjunto de notables escritores (poetas, narradores, ensayistas, dramaturgos), varias tendencias muy bien definidas y varios grupos bastante…
words by Francisco López Sacha One thinks the days of a tree are all the same, especially if it is an old tree. No. One day of an old tree is a day of the world. haroldo conti I wouldn’t know how to start, I will only say that we are at the doors of…
por: Francisco López Sacha Uno piensa que los días de un árbol son todos iguales, sobre todo si es un árbol viejo. No. Un día de un viejo árbol es un día del mundo. haroldo conti No sabría cómo comenzar, solo diré que estamos a las puertas de una revelación, de un procedimiento tan diáfano…
words by Adis González Sánchez It is licit to violate a culture But with the condition to make a son. Simone de Beauvoir Domos magicvs is part of the distinctive lyrical succession of Jesus Lara Sotelo’s literary work. The collection of poems opens its doors to receive who would become accomplice readers with one…