Suenos y Escencias

For Eduardo Urios-Aparisi poetry is above all, word, spoken word. Word that commits, pronounces, sounds. Word that leaves knots in the voice. For Urios, words play and challenge to play, to conceive the world from different and unsuspected points of view. The poems reflect the senses of the poet; moment to moment, in seduction, abandonment, and loss. It is reality flowing and always fleeing; fragmentary, accelerated, changing and unattainable.

In 1996 I celebrated a year of sobriety and began a journey of rebirth. That year I developed confidence in myself that previously I never experienced. I took my personal collection of notes, diaries, and tapes from my year in Vietnam and begin to organize them into a book. In 1997 I completed the manuscript and titled it One Heart One Mind: one man's memoir of a tour of Vietnam. The book not only dealt with my year in Vietnam but with the emotional cost of the war on my soul and psyche. With assistance from Jonathan Shay M.D., Ph.D., the author of Achilles in Vietnam (a book about combat...

Quizá solo sueños o fantasías lo que se junta en este pensamiento, pero es mi pensar y me brinda alegría al escribir en forma sencilla y con gusto. Quiero compartirles algo, que se ha juntado en esta existencia mía. Bienvenidos se han ustedes a este aposento; les presento esta vez, Armonía del Sentimiento III.

Ritsos, una de las mejores voces de la lírica europea, creó una serie de monólogos de excepcional sutileza, con los que consigue trasladar a nuestros días el pathos de la tragedia griega. Con Crisótemis continuamos la publicación de estos soliloquios dramáticos en versión de Selma Ancira.