The whole book, consisting mostly of short poems, short breath, cut epigrammatic, it is built around the close dialogue that the poet argues with other poets from different periods and covering, among others, issues relating to its identity as Peruvian and jew.
All themes of universal breath that induce the poet to reflect on the human condition, knowing that it is always the voice of the poem to have the last word. Goldemberg And it does so through the tip of a corroding polished and refined irony, that the intonation is more than phrasing, pushed sometimes to the burning of a compelling poignancy.
Language is always relaxed and fluid, with a tendency to shy away from any emphasis, by forcing every declamatory, to deliver images and feelings and thoughts in an intonation that tends to discursive (Emilio Coco).

Bio-bibliographical news:
Isaac Goldemberg (Chepén, Peru, 1945) lives in New York since 1964.
He has published four novels, twelve books of poetry, short stories and one of three works of theater. His most recent poetry collections are Diálogos conmigo y mis otros (2013), La vida breve (2012) and the novel Acuérdate of escorpión (2010). In 2001 his novel La vida de plazos to Don Jacobo Lerner was selected for the Yiddish Book Center in the United States as one of the 100 most important works of Jewish literature the world over the past 150 years.
He has received, among others, the following awards: the 2001 Poetry Award of the PEN Club of Peru Peruvian blues for the book, and in 2003 the Prize of Summer Theatre for opera Golpe de Gracia. His books have been translated into several languages, among them a novel in Italian: The name of the father (Florence, Giuntina, 2003).
He is currently Distinguished Professor of Hostos Community College of The City University of New York, where he directs the Institute of Latin American writers and the international magazine of culture "Hostos Review" .The life unfolds through the usual moments and situations. The human classifies them according to your expectations, different from person to person.
The task of removing them from the destruction of time is given to both the memory of the individual is the writing that fixed forever.
In any case the originality of something that happened to be found within the writer reconstructs it based on his emotions.
Tales of Alberti Pasina are located within the zone in which author and reader exchange experiences: the first asks the second to probe their memories to give them a different look, the second is in the first coordinates within which mental revive its past.

Reviews:

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