Devoured by the Moon - Softcover

Estrada, Rafael Perez

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1931236372 ISBN 13: 9781931236379

Publisher: Hanging Loose Press, 2004

Synopsis

Poetry. Translation. Translated from the Spanish by Steven J. Stewart. Before his death in 2000, Rafael Perez Estrada was one of contemporary Spain's most imaginative and unique writers. He created a body of work that often defies classification, crafting fantastic realities from myth, fable, and his own Mediterranean surroundings. Perez Estrada's writing has been compared to that of Borges and Calvino for the way it incorporates the fantastic to alter our perception of reality. "An heir to the great masters of the weird such as Michaux and Kafka, [Perez Estrada] creates a protean world born from the fabric of our culture and that of many other worlds. In his poems we enhoy and fear being introduced to people, objects, and beings already known to us; we find the lost key as well as new connections and correspondences existing in our time"--Juan Carlos Galeano.

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Review:

"All lovers of literary fantasy have a mental Mount Rushmore that surely includes Borges and Calvino, perhaps one or two others. Having read these marvellous poems, I'm glad I saved room on my own imaginary rock face for Rafael Perez Estrada. Like the best surrealists, he makes extraordinary montages out of ordinary materials: mirrors, shadows, water, murder, fog, angels, dreams. (Did I fool you, reader, with 'angels'? If so, I didn't mean to, for angels are as common in the world of Perez Estrada as anything else.) In a typical poem, a mysterious beauty rushes up to the poet, opens a zipper on her breast, and hands him her heart 'so if someone stabs me, ' she says, 'I won't completely die.' These poems are as durable as granite; they won't die, either, as long as readers adore writing as pleasurable and inventive as this."

About this edition

• Publisher: Hanging Loose Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1931236372
• ISBN 13: 9781931236379
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 142