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Book · 2002
El azul en la flama
In this landmark collection dedicated to José Gorostiza, Mexican poet David Huerta departs from baroque verbal excess to construct a luminous and contemplative geography of everyday perceptions. Through disciplined meditation on light, memory, and the physical senses, the poems explore the fragile yet enduring essence of language and existence.
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El azul en la flama, a striking landmark in one of our living tradition’s most dazzling and rigorous poetic journeys, is the polished record of a voyage inward and outward where craft masterfully unites the realms of reason and the senses. David Huerta’s lucid gaze uncovers self-contained landscapes in unlikely spaces, opening windows through the walls stubbornly raised by habit and logic.
From Ediciones Era In the third section, in a tight sequence, there are ten or twelve splendid poems. Through a long tradition of universal poetry, it is widely embraced that in treating love, the snapshots of reality (from the first part) and the world’s very unfolding (from the second) merge, full of meaning and continuity.
Arturo Cantú on Letras Libres The surprise of El azul en la flama is that it reads like the work of youth, that of an emerging poet striving to reach beyond the mere accumulation of imagery that limited so much late twentieth-century poetry. Dedicated to Gorostiza, the book places itself under his profound auspices.
Arturo Cantú on Letras Libres
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