Palabras, anhelos y deseos

Los Demonios reúne poemas que definen dos períodos clave en la vida de la autora, desde 1991 a 1995. Lo personal y lo universal, lo lírico y lo prosaico se encuentran para enlazar los poemas del alma y de la tierra en un libro aparentemente disímil, bajo un título y un tono unificadores.

Roberto Bolaño’s own preferred literary persona was as a poet and Tres is his most inventive and bracing collection. As the title implies, the collection is composed of three sections. ‘Prose from Autumn in Gerona’, a cinematic series of prose poems, slowly reveals a subtle and emotional tale of unrequited love by presenting each scene, shattering it, and piecing it all back together, over and over again. The second part, ‘The Neochileans’, is a sort of On the Road in verse, which narrates the travels of a young Chilean band on tour traveling north from Chile to Peru and Ecuador....

“Antología de la poesía espectacular es esta cosa heterónima o heteronómica -gay, en todo caso- de inventarse autores para que firmen tus delirios. Alejarse de la propia obra interponiendo culpables significa que uno se gusta mucho, y le da vergüenza, motivo por el cual firma como otro y así puede releerse con placer mayor.”

Loving poetry is a symbol of indolence, a challenge that requires solitude and silence, sacrifice and permanent devotion. All that a human being needs to live can be found in poetry, the artistic genre par excellence. El libro de los indolentes is a journey towards an unknown place where we inhabit, each day, a fortified but unwalled space, a river that gushes truth.