Hace un mes nació mi segundo poemario que he llamado Birding (la contemplación de las aves), nuevamente de la mano de la editorial Huerga y Fierro Editores.
Podéis adquirirlo en Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/0atubV1G y, dentro de poco, estará disponible en librerías.
Imagen de la firma de ejemplares en la Feria del Libro de Madrid, 2026.
No dejéis de leer la reseña que ha escrito la poeta Lluïsa Lladó y que ha recogido la revista digital Irredimibles cuyo enlace encontraréis aquí abajo.
Since I see that you are still reading my posts, I will continue writing on this blog.
Today I want to share three poems that appeared in the Antologia de Voces del Extremo 2025 (Anthology of Voices from the Extreme 2025), which was held in the town of Moguer last July.
I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoyed writing them.
Os invito a conocer el blog y el trabajo que realiza Antonio Martin Flores, profesor de filosofía del IES López de Arenas (Marchena, Sevilla). Cada semana publica un poema de un autor-a distinto y hace un análisis y una explotación didáctica del mismo. Es un recurso extraordinario para el aula y una manera de acercar la poesía al alumnado y a los docentes.
Esta semana le tocó el turno a un poema de LA INTEMPERIE que titulé "Me duele el lápiz". Echad un ojo a la reflexión y propuestas que hace con el mismo.
La ausencia de los cuerpos transforma los espacios volviéndolos huecos, irreconocibles, casi hostiles. No sé si se puede habitar el vacío o debemos permitirle el derecho a dejar de ser. Hay apego hasta en la ausencia como si la impermanencia no fuera aire que respiramos.
Se paró un tiempo en julio de 2019 según reza el calendario de su cocina. Encontré la casa sembrada de notitas, tan aficionada al recordatorio era. Después de esa fecha dejó de arrancar las hojas y, probablemente, dejó de anotar. Descubrí mi poema de Nochebuena de 2012 pegado sobre los azulejos, bajo el paso de un tiempo de papel. Y el texto que le escribí por su 90 cumpleaños, enmarcado, junto a una foto del día que me casé, con todos mis hermanos . Parecemos de la banda de los Bee Gees. Había olvidado que, alguna vez, nuestros cuerpos compartieron la misma altura.
Una vez descubrí en su bolsito de búho otro poema meticulosamente plegado que sacaba y metía sin más. Otro recordatorio. Otra manera de dejarse acompañar.
Si la poesía fuera eso ya tendría un sentido.
The absence of bodies transforms spaces, making them hollow, unrecognisable, almost hostile. I don't know if it is possible to inhabit the void or if we should allow it the right to cease to be. There is attachment even in absence as if impermanence were not the air we breathe.
Time stopped for a while in July 2019 according to the calendar in her kitchen. I found the house strewn with little notes, so fond of reminders she was. After that date she stopped tearing out the pages and, probably, stopped writing. I discovered my Christmas Eve poem of 2012 stuck on the tiles, under the passing of a paper time. And the text I wrote her for her 90th birthday, framed, next to a photo of the day I got married, with all my siblings. We look like the Bee Gees band. I had forgotten that, once upon a time, our bodies shared the same height.
Once I discovered in her little owl bag another meticulously folded poem that she would just pull out and tuck in. Another reminder. Another way of letting herself be accompanied.
If poetry were that, it would already have a meaning.
"This is one of the verses of this collection of poems called LA INTEMPERIE, which was born a little more than a month ago by the hand of Editorial Huerga y Fierro.
Under this outdoors -which is nothing more than life itself- we recognize ourselves as interwoven beings. We are not separated by age, origin, health or illness. Each glance is the reflection of the other.
Some of the poems that nestle in this collection of poems are dedicated to this wonderful woman who is my mother and there are also You, so I wanted the first reading to be here in this place where dignity has become flesh."
These were the words of the presentation at the residence where my mother currently lives.
She is 99 and a half years old right now.
This is the video of a poem I wrote for her and that I was lucky enough to recite :
De qué estás hecha.
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During the celebration of International Women's Day on March 8th, 2020 I read , with some students, a bit of poetry and prose.
A vivid memory which I wanted to share with you.
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits.
The rebels. The troublemakers. The round
pegs in the square holes. The ones who
see things differently. They’re not
fond of rules. And they have
no respect for the status quo.
You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve
them, glorify or vilify them. About the
only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they
change things. They invent.
They imagine. They heal.
They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the
human race forward. Maybe they
have to be crazy.
How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in
silence and hear a song that’s never been written? Or gaze at a
red planet and see a laboratory on wheels? While some
may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change
the world, are the ones
who do.
Jack Kerouac
Brindemos por
las locas, por las inadaptadas
por las rebeldes, por las alborotadoras,
por las que no encajan,por las que ven las cosas de una manera diferente. No
les gustan las reglas y no respetan el statu
quo.
Puedes alabarlas, no estar de acuerdo con ellas,
citarlas, cuestionarlas, glorificarlas o vilipendiarlas.Pero lo que no puedes hacer es ignorarlas.
Porque cambian las cosas. Inventan. Imaginan.
Sanan. Exploran. Crean. Inspiran.Empujan
adelante la raza humana.
Puede que
tengan que estar locas. [ ... ] Mientras algunos las ven como locas, nosotros vemos el genio.
Porque las únicas que se creen tan locascomo para pensar que pueden cambiar el mundo, son las que lo hacen.
Jack Kerouac
[American
novelist and poet (1922-1969), pioneer of the Beat Generation (1950) – On the road.]