VICENTE VALERO in the spotlight

Vicente Valero (Ibiza) poeta, narrator and essayist stands again in the candlestick.

I have allowed myself the luxury of bringing you a fragment belonging to the interview that hispanic american notebooks did Vicente Valero in the year 2017. Not wasted response: “Is there a personal search, intimate, a movement against the turmoil of the world?”.

“I see my poetry as a spiritual adventure. My personal growth, my maturity, my understanding of the world, My questions, few answers, my fears and my convictions: everything is linked to it. The poetic word is a form of knowledge and poetry, por tanto, an inquiry into the spiritual intimacy. Today I have the feeling that what I know I have learned from poetry, or at least with poetry, walking with her. It is as if the poetic word and the poetic work had led me towards a knowledge through ways in which thought, the experience, nature, memories, the sensations, dreams mysteriously coincide, are revealed as a unique knowledge, indivisible. My poetry is a journey and the expression of an initiation”.

Just because of this fragment you already want to run to the libraries of Ibiza in search of some of his works.

Today we wanted to talk about Vicente Valero why, as the title of this news says, follow in the candlestick. His novel “Transitions” (2016) it just opens in Germany with the Berlin publishing house Berenberg. And it is the second work published in this country. What secrets does this poet from Ibiza keep?

Además, we have to congratulate him because in January 2019, la editorial norteamericana Quantum Prose, in New York City, published the English translation of his poems “Forest days”. With this collection of poems he won in the year 2007 the Loewe Foundation International Award, a prestigious award published by the Visor publishing house.

Bibliography of Vicente Valero

Some of his works:

He is the author of seven books of poetry: Night garden(The Rowan, 1987), Heritage and fable (Rialp, 1989), Solar theory (Visor, 1992. Loewe Award for Young Creation, 1992), Vigil in South Cape (Tusquets, 1999), Layout book (Tusquets, 2005), Forest days (Visor, 2008. Loewe Foundation International Poetry Prize 2007) y Song of the distracted, compilation and summary of his poetic work (Broken glass, 2015). He has written, Likewise, the essay books The poetry of Juan Ramón Jiménez (Andros, 1988); Experience and poverty. Walter Benjamin and Ibiza, 1932-1933 (Peninsula, 2001); Contemporary travelers: Ibiza, twentieth century (Pre-Texts, 2004) y Diary of an approach (Pre-Texts, 2008). He has published the novel The strangers (Peripheral, 2014).Story book The Art of Fugue (Peripheral, 2015).

Health, Peace and Freedom.

Maria ViBo

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