Trazos ciegos

Basado sobre todo en la sobriedad y la sinceridad, el haiku (género poético de origen japonés compuesto con 17 sílabas y ordenado en tres versos de 5, 7 y 5 sílabas) requiere una expresión extremadamente concisa y es el resultado de un sutil acuerdo entre el poeta y el espectáculo del mundo.

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.

This famous and universally loved poem for daily living has inspired many generations of Buddhists and non-Buddhists since it was first composed in the 8th century by the famous Indian Buddhist master Shantideva. This new translation, made under the guidance of Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, conveys the great lucidity and poetic beauty of the original, while preserving its full impact and spiritual insight. Reading these verses slowly, while contemplating their meaning, has a profoundly liberating effect on the mind. The poem invokes special positive states of mind, moves us from suffering and...

Libro bilingüe con poesía mística y de vanguardia cubana. Bilingual book with mystical poetry and of Cuban avant-garde.