La ocasión y el homenaje

Even though it is part of his personal and non-transferable world, La ocasión y el homenaje is a singular book in the itinerary of Felipe Benítez Reyes, who offers here a collection of poems, with very different tones and intentions, in which he shows his command of the forms and registers of the most diverse literary traditions. The result of a slow decantation that has brought together recent pieces with others that go back far back in time, the set brings together civic poems of contemporary inspiration such as those dedicated to the destruction of the Sarajevo Library, the attack on Las Ramblas or the nuclear accident from Fukushima; some apocryphal, brimming with wit, from the legendary Spoon River Anthology; delicate samples of minor art and very representative pieces of his imagination, characterized by a suggestive symbology that participates both in reality and in dreams.