Poética

The summer has really bad for Manolito. He is condemned, once again, to spend the holidays in his small flat in Carabanchel Alto with his mother, his grandfather and his little brother. And he has failed mathematics, to his mother's chagrin. Manolito looks forward to the arrival of his father, a truck driver, to take the family to the beach.

Peter Pan was born over a century ago. There is something doubly contradictory in this phrase that, although true, is also the reason why this book has been released. We are talking about the boy who will never grow up and the fact that he is celebrating his hundredth birthday should provoke some surprise. At the same time, he is such a powerful icon that it is also true that he seems to have been there, floating in our culture, reappearing in its images, since time immemorial - much farther back than the early twentieth century. This book shows that, although he considered dying to be an...

¿Y para qué sirve un libro? Esa es la pregunta. Alfredo Gómez Cerdá nos propone no todas, pero sí algunas respuestas: para perder el Tour de Francia, para ser trasladado a Medellín, para salvarte la vida, para llegar a tiempo a la boda de una hija, para ahogarse en un río, para tener trillizos, para hacer el regalo perfecto, para pintar la casa, para hacer una película de éxito, para evitar un error médico, para que te erijan una estatua o para ganar un premio.

A collection of poems, including "The Massacre," "No Harm Shall Come," "Touched," "Evensong," and "Amberose Triste"