In the company of writers, special guests and the public interested in poetry, Mazatlecan writer Fernando Alarriba will present the book “De este mar”, his most recent creation this Friday, November 17th at 7 pm at Casa Haas.
During that opening night, the author and the public will have the privilege of having comments from the poet Ana Belén López, a fundamental writer of Sinaloa literature.
“I trust that through her participation we will be able to have an interesting and entertaining presentation,” says Alarriba.
“The title of the book, ‘Of this sea’, tells us about something symbolic: the sea as a totality. In this case the totality of the spirit, the totality of the soul. But the state or states of the soul that I address in the poem have to do with heartbreak, desperation, fear, violence; states that are born from pain, from something that drowns us in what the mystical poet Saint John of the Cross described as ‘The dark night of the soul’,”he explained.
In that sense, adds the writer, it can be said that “De este mar” is an encounter with death, a dialogue with memory to encounter those personal abysses that, throughout life, can leave us in a state of desolation, of emptiness and that, as contradictory as it may seem, can be the moment of a profound transformation, the birth of faith: dying to be reborn.
Fernando Alarriba expressed that it took him 10 years to write this collection of poems, it was an exhausting process because the topics can be emotionally exhausting; But, above all, the process was especially tiring because he tried to expand the range of literary resources of his previous publication by integrating different poetic voices, by creating a book that proposes a series of stories and by aspiring to a much more ambitious structure.
“De este mar” was published by Ediciones del Olvido, they included it in their “Cigarra Poesía Mexicana” Collection, it costs $150.00 and will be on sale at Casa Haas during its presentation. Free entry, limited space.
