Sunset
Joxemari Sestao has brought to Euskera an atypical poet, as Beñat Sarasola tells us in the foreword, who prefers the poetry of the skies higher than the poetry he has to say with the body: “With open fabrics on dead animals/ mist/ hiding the landscape where the body is/ what you forgot yesterday at dawn.”
Difficult and lover of marginal loves, Alberto Rapose Pidwell Tavares (Coimbra, 1948–Lisbon, 1997) was sculptor, cultural animator, art commissioner, editor of Antonio Madeira or Sergio da Costa e Silva, hippy for Europe, learned and unlearned. What Al Berto brought to words lived from the depths, and to write about life -- beautiful things, bad things -- needed necessarily new ways: “Oli, the invisible chapero, tended on the carpet and screamed: No, you don't target me, I'm Swiss and the Swiss don't give us the ass! Bah! The nails slowly, slowly... and put the butt, grind the teeth like a tall bitch thirsty for sperm."
I would say that Al Berto's writing is the poetry of rage. However, it is not artificial. Blood is authentic, the real sweats, the seed, the saliva. Let's say that demassage is the commitment that the world generates to the poet, the mirror of reality. At times, Al Berto seems to have a two-way feeling: he is made absurd of existence, but he only finds meaning in the absurd. It solves through art the seemingly contradictory. And only the meteoric journey of man among the stars can be defined with this naïve writing, without complexes and kindly: “In the celluloid of the night film: wing architecture / wind vaults are the birds of the garbage.”
The Expresso had picked up the words one month before he died. “All the meus livros tivadimum nature of emergency”. All fast, all serious. Whoever approaches this anthology will find no more peaceful pond than the rude and elegant words written by a soul in full boiling with pain and pleasure. You'll like it. You won't like it. At least you will not be disillusioned by a poet that tells the truth.
Puntobobo
Itxaso Martin Zapirain
Sowing, 2024
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The title and cover image (Puntobobo, Wool Bite and Rag Doll) will suggest mental health, making the point and childhood, but more patches will be rolled up as the book... [+]
Itsasoa bete urre
Dani Martirena
Irudiak: Ana Ibañez
Txalaparta, 2022
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Liburu honetara barneratzen den irakurleak sentsazio ugari izango ditu. Deigarria da azaleko letren urre kolorea eta zuritasuna, goialdean ageri den... [+]
Migranteak
Issa watanabe
1545 argitaletxea, 2024
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Ezagutzen ez nuen 1545 argitaletxeak 2024an itzuli eta kaleratu du Issa Watanaberen Migranteak liburua. Animalia talde batek egiten duen migrazio prozesua kontatzen du; eta... [+]
Adania
Shibli
Translation: Aitor Blanco Leoz
Igela, 2024
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During these days, an Israeli soldier is bombarding hospitals, schools, Palestinian refugee camps with drones as if it were a video game, while in the West we see on... [+]
Fun Home. A tragic family
history Alison Bechdel
Txalaparta, 2024
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Fun Home. Alison Bechdel is known for the first publication of the graphic novel A Tragic Family Story (2006), although he himself participated in several... [+]
PLEIBAK
Miren Amuriza Plaza
Susa, 2024
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Susa has published Miren Amuriza's second novel in the atrium of the Durango Fair: Plead. It's plebiscites because you're singing about an earlier recording. Berria includes the... [+]
Book Non sense
Edward Lear
Translation: Juan Kruz Igerabide
Denonartean, 2024
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The writer and illustrator Edward Lear published this work in 1846. As Igerabide says in the prologue of the book, “nonsense humor, absurd... [+]
Hetero
Uxue Alberdi
Susa, 2024
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In the era of negationism, the manosphere and trolls, the contribution of literature is essential, because it is an exceptional instrument to look at the folds of reality: the situations... [+]
Guardasola wants rain
Patxi Zubizarreta
Illustrations: Irrimarra
Ibaizabal, 2024
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30 years ago Patxi Zubizarreta published the book Marigoringoak hegan; J. M. Illustrated by Lavarello and by the hand of the Catalan publisher... [+]
Eyes on the horizon
Writer: Illustrator Miren Agur
Meabe: Ane Pikaza
Elkar, 2020
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Miren Agur Meabe has published several texts and books. He's worked with all the literary genres: children's and youth literature,... [+]
Barrengaizto
Beatrice Salvioni (Translation:
deceit Fernando Rey)
Txalaparta, 2024
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Fernando Rey has chosen the title of Barrizto to translate La malnata de Beatrice Salvioni. King says he has tried to be the voice of the... [+]
PELLOKERIAK
Ruben Ruiz
Illustrations: Joseba Beramendi, exprai.
Elkar, 2022
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Rubén Ruiz offers a new work of short stories. They are not micronarratives, because the stories, although they can be read independently, have a... [+]
Memet
Noemie Marsily and Isabella
Cieli For Centos, 2022
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We opened the zipper of the camping in red and looked through the leek along with Lucy. With this cover, the reader receives the comic book Memet. Simple words... [+]
A Heart Museum
Leire Vargas
Elkar, 2024
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The Basque cultural system has a thirst for young people. That's what Leire Vargas said in the written column in Berria. The industry is looking for fresh, varied and diverse... [+]
What you love. Word recall, live reading
Miren Billelabeitia
Pamiela, 2022
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Miren Billelabeitia has been a professor at the institute, a literary aficionado and a professor of Universal Literature for years. In 2022 he... [+]