Recommended article: two poems by José Teruel
INVENTION
When a man of melancholy disposition
he stays alone in front of the sea
and discovers suddenly convinced
who will live and die ignored;
then write your name
on whatever surface is at hand.
The solitary places, public gazebos,
barks, abandoned papers
will always be covered
of similar inscriptions,
made with avid pulse,
by hand, in ink, at the point of a knife.
“José Teruel (Melilla, 1959) is a professor of Spanish literature at the Autonomous University of Madrid. He has been a visiting professor at Duke University and Middlebury College (United States). Between 1984 and 2000 he has worked as a professor of contemporary Spanish poetry at the International Institute. His books of poems stand out Like never body of a loved one (1992) and The solitude of names (2000) (...). His work as a poet and philologist is based on an aspiration: the encounter with a word not divided between thought and omen.”
Extract from an article published in ABC de las Artes y las Letras. Read complete.
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