This collection of poems can be considered a true anthology, because it brings texts written from 1997 to 2015 by the Peruvian Miguel Ángel Zapata, "one of the most representative lyrical voices of Hispano-American Literature" (Miguel Ildefonso).
The work of this evil author is framed within a generation schemes, groups, movements or countries. The charm of his verse is linked to an absolutely personal and original.
The title puts us in a state of transition between time and space, within which it broke through purely human activity: writing poetry. The author presents itself, therefore, as the emblem of twentieth-century man, homo viator, who, having lost the points of cultural reference, it pauses to contemplate the "minimum reality", that of the little things.
The poetry of Zapata, writes the critic Miguel Ildefonso, "arises from the so exciting and careful contemplation in everyday things: watching is to discover and find out is to write and fill with wonder."

The author
Miguel Ángel Zapata, Peruvian poet and essayist, was born in Piura in 1955, it is one of the most important voices of the Peruvian and Latin American poetry today. Are two recently published anthologies of his poetry: "Note 13" (Bogota, Los torreones, 2015), and "Hoy día es otro mundo" (Granada, Ediciones Valparaiso, 2015). Among his books of poetry include: "La ventana y ounces poemas" (Mexico City, cuadrivio, 2014), "La lluvia siempre sube" (Buenos Aires, Melón Editores, 2012), "Fragmentos de una manzana y otros poemas" (Seville, Sibila-Fundación BBVA, 2011), "Ensayo sobre la rosa. Poesía selecta 1983-2008 "(Lima, Universidad San Martin de Porres, 2010)," Los canales de piedra. Antología mínima "(Valencia, Venezuela, Universidad de Carabobo, 2008). His poetry has been translated into English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic and Russian.
As an essayist and critic has published, among others, the following books: "Vuela a cuervo sobre la luna. Muestra de poesía española contemporánea: 1959-1980 "(New York, Hostos 2014)," La voz deudora. Conversaciones sobre poetry hispanoamericana "(in collaboration with Ilán Stavans, Lima - Mexico City, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2013)," Vapor trasatlántico. Estudios sobre poetry Hispánica y norteamericana "(Lima - Mexico City, FCE-Universidad de San Marcos, 2008)," Asir shape que se goes. Poetry de Carlos German Belli "(Lima, Universidad de San Marcos, 2006)," El hacedor y las palabras. Dialogues with poetry de América Latina "(Lima - Mexico City, FCE, 2005). He is Professor of Latin American Literature Hofstra University in New York.