It is not surprising that a well-known and well-known poet—the author of nineteen most award-winning poetry books, as well as several other essays, and whose works have been collected in four anthologies—has just published his twentieth book of poetry.
What will surprise its readers is that this is not just a new book, but another by Antonio Gracia, but in this book the author turns his gaze not only to himself, but also to himself, as before. Now that Antonio Gracia’s life and work were united, mingled, and combined in one thing, he devoted time to all of his previous work, as much as to say something about his entire life: his poetry.
The result is the emotional expression of the life trajectory of a human—or of a fully human poet whose voice he sings—not just from his birth to his own maturity, but from the cosmic origin of the world. He is a person who runs with everyone who gives a voice, passing through the emergence of different forms of life, mind and art that express and shape both life and consciousness with their pain, joy, encounters, disagreements and uncertainties. towards death
It is here that readers of this book will recognize, remember, or relive the first long outburst of rebellion by a man who faced an unacceptable death for himself and culminated in the awe-inspiring book The Eyes of Metaphor, which brought him closer to insanity. 1987), as displaced and insane as it is virtuous but filled with a more emotionally restrained verbal space, will continue to manifest in this poet’s later books.
After a few years of silence, the poet came out of the maddening cul-de-sac of Los ojos de la metaphora with his book Hacia la luz (1998); The tragedy in which death transforms life implied a certain brilliance of the gaze from the flashes that help to live: the plastic arts, music and literature (especially poetry), but also gazing at an outside world that is sometimes as terrifying as it is wonderful. A certain philosophical understanding that transforms life into something wonderful, even something almost acceptable, by helping to understand love, solidarity, human history, and the world less badly.
The first part of this book, “Original,” two long, long poems of several chapters each, objectively or almost objectively describes the evolution of the world and of man with extraordinary expressive power. a result of the poet’s feelings arising from his dominance over commerce.
The second part, consisting of 43 short poems, details the various and different lightning bolts that illuminate life as it rains dark bullets on life.
The book ends with the “Three scrolls” honoring the three poets in the style of the author of this book; For the poem “The strategy of the verb”, which is the self-defining poetics of Gracia art; and with a kind of afterword, “La búsqueda de Oniria”, where Gracia explains his poetic trajectory to himself, or likewise his own life in prose.
For those who know more or less of Gracia’s poems, this book will help them both to understand him and to understand life much better, and to enjoy the beauty and mastery of his lines. And those who are still unaware will find him here in its entirety, and his life has been poeticized; and poetry, life, his life.