Portrait of Baudelaire
A tragic and visionary dandy, Baudelaire transformed the misery and splendor of Paris into poetry where the abyss becomes beauty.
Essays
Poetry
Essays
Against the Academic Kremlin (miniature III)
Poetry as a defense against academic arrogance, by virtue of a future of aesthetic reason.
Book Reviews
‘Sinalectas’: Verbal Artifact for Viewing
A poetic laboratory where word and image confront and balance each other to distill perception, eliminating ornamentation until only the tension between the visible and its void remains.
Essays
Conjectures IV (Kitsch in Piñera’s poetry and the ogre b?) (1)
Kitsch in Virgilio Piñera’s poetry as a parodic and subversive tool against literary sentimentality, in contrast to its unintentional presence in Borges and Lorca.
Essays
Bazinga! Poetry and translation*
Youth language and poetry, like translation, challenge and reinvent language to create new meanings.
Book Reviews
‘Orden doméstico’, by Sylvina Bach: Music That Fades Away
An exploration of memory, home, and fleeting time, preserving experiences as a gesture of love.
Essays
From Root to Resurrection: Reading Rilke’s Sonnet XIV
Rilke conceives of the dead as a silent force that fertilizes life and anticipates resurrection from the roots.
Book Reviews
‘El ruido de los libros’: Writing and Scars
A book by Luis Felipe Rojas that intertwines memory, resistance, and literature, from his youth in Cuba to his exile, marked by scars and a passion for books.
Essays
Every Wave Contains Its Own Reflection*
Contemporary Hispanic American poetry breaks free from the traditional canon by becoming an intertextual, fragmentary, and ethical act that transcends genres and media to explore new forms of meaning, identity, and language from the periphery and the unstable.