Nuevo poemario en inglés: «Enlightenment of Derangement»

Hace pocas semanas saqué a la luz un nuevo poemario en inglés, se trata de Enlightenment of Derangement (Insania iluminada), un libro que reúne veintisiete poemas escritos y recopilados a los largo de siete años.

Al respecto se puede decir que está cargado de imágenes y metáforas sobre los sueños, la noche, la belleza, la eternidad, el amor, Dios. Es un libro de iluminaciones e insanias escrito por alguien que ha visto la locura, pero que también ha vivido la felicidad y el gozo de existir. Así, transcribo aquí un poema del libro, el cual está disponible en Amazon. | Recently, I brought to light my new poetry book, Enlightenment of Derangement, which reunites twenty-seven poems written along seven years. It can be said that it's filled with images and metaphors about dreams, the night, beauty, eternity, love, God. It's a work of illuminations and insanities written by someone who has experienced madness, but has also seen the happiness and joy of existence. Here I copy a poem from the book, which is available on Amazon:

I USED TO BE A FISH

            The silence of the sleeping bird,
the arch of the entrance, the damp

─these things perhaps are the poem.

BORGES

I used to be a fish

that swam in the air,

I couldn’t breathe,

I couldn’t kiss,

I couldn’t swallow vomits of truth.

Now I’ve found my sea

breathing,

melting with my sweat and screaming.

I used to be a waterless fish,

I cradled the air,

I had nothing left.

I’m grown water now,

I can feel my gills,

they keep on moaning truth

like pure gold sand

and today has rained

millions of sea stars,

they keep on groaning

something like dust,

millions of stars

that shine like a true poem.

© Enlightenment of Derangement
© Karina Luz
© 2018

Ha sido un viaje fascinante escribirlo y publicarlo, como cuando se siembra una luna en la mejilla de una rosa para cosecharla en eclipse intemporal. Es mi quinta entrega literaria, y la atesoro de manera especial porque no solo habla de poesía, sino de mi yo literario: mi vida es un poema, y no hay nada más que añadir. | It's been a fascinating journey to write it and publish it, like when one sows a moon in the face of a rose to harvest a timeless eclipse. This is my fifth book, and I treasure it in a special way because it not only talks about poetry, but my literary self: my life is a poem, and there's nothing left to say.