Watercourses

Making a presentation for a poetry book is like trying to prepare the reader for the elusive. It is, in a very particular way, to pretend that the understanding of some phrases that, precisely, want to escape, that seek to be beyond a definition or a message, can be given in advance. Poetry is that paradox: transmitting a meaning that always remains hidden, that it is necessary to reveal, trying to trap in that formless beyond that opens when words are not enough. A book of poetry should be thought of as an invitation to travel through the unknown, to let ourselves be impregnated with that which is alien to us and confronts us.
But this book, these channels traversed by words like rain or that get clogged like dry leaves that become burrows or those ashes like dust dragged along the roads... these poems confront us with the everyday. Here we will see the lightness of a life: what escapes us as spectators of death, which becomes a spiel, chatter, an existential abandonment that, little by little, takes refuge in the news, in sporting events seen on television that, as part of the confinement, make us think of an outside, sometimes a utopian promise, sometimes stark cruelty. A world of messages lost in computer highways that fill us with absences until we get sick, until we are forced to accept a loneliness that does not disappear even in the streets of the cities and their hustle and bustle. However, these cities teach us about a fear that turns into contempt, which will later turn into detachment. A detachment that will allow us to take a road, a line of flight that will have let us out of ourselves.
Ediciones UCC wants to thank Marco Cardona for allowing us to publish his poems and present to the public what we know is an emotional and beautiful work. But above all, it is a commitment to honest writing and is willing to try to decipher what remains hidden in the routine of our lives because we take it for granted.

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Published
November 30, 2022
ISBN
9789587603965
9789587603989
9789587603972

How to Cite

Cardona Giraldo, M. (2022). Watercourses. Ediciones Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia. https://doi.org/10.16925/9789587603972