The book is a journey through those places where the author grew up in the Holy Trinity of Santa Bárbara, Honduras.
Next Thursday, April 23 at 6:30 PM, the Embassy of Honduras presents in the Miguel de Cervantes Room of Casa América the poetry book Madness of the Blood, by Bairon Paz Fernández. Free entry until full capacity.
A doctor by profession, Bairon Paz does not speak in this book of the blood that, natural, runs through the veins of a physical body, but of another, that which sustains sensitive life, memory, affections, the dearly loved, and to which we always return, whether as matter or as mycelium seeking the synapse with the endearing that dwells in him (or in us). Thus, he weaves in Madness of the Blood, a journey through those places where he grew up in the Holy Trinity of Santa Bárbara, Honduras; he constructs a gallery of images in which we can recognize many of the characters that populate that site located among solemn mountains of sweetgum, coffee, struggle, violence, and love in agitated coexistence; as well as the corner, the cemetery, the billiards, the family home, and other points of an intimate, personal, and collective geography.
Structured in six parts, in some way the book folds, at least in part, to “the idea of travel” of Néstor García Canclini, who analyzes “travel not only as physical displacement but also as an experience of the everyday, a manifestation of imaginaries and perceptions, and a tool for social integration.”
Bairon transports the reader with his book to that place which, besides having the concretion of clay, stone, lime, wood, and bahareque, is also a symbolic place, as much as his poetic journey and what he finds again in it, because neither the material nor the symbolic need to be discovered to exist, because they exist, and it only takes the necessary perception and affection to bring them into the focus of light and poetry, as a testimony of what dwells in the heart and memory as repositories where history shines or hurts.
The event will be presented by Liza Medrano, minister counselor of the Embassy of Honduras, and will feature Bairon Paz Fernández, Honduran doctor and author of the work, and Samuel Trigueros, Honduran writer and editor.
Number of pages: 136
Publisher: Nautilus Ediciones
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 9788410241763
Price: 14.25 euros
