Reloj de sol (Colección Es un decir) (Spanish Edition) - Softcover

Sun Clock Zaid's first poems reveal "almost all the qualities that will later distinguish his poetry: economy, a fairness of tone, simplicity, the sudden spark of humor, and instantaneous revelations of eroticism, time, and that other time that is inside time. Precocious mastery, an exceptional occurrence in contemporary poetry [...]. Satire becomes important with Campo nudista [...]. It is in satire that the three cardinal points of Zaid's poetry meet: love, thought, and religion. Our insensibility toward the spiritual and the numinous has attained such proportions that no one, or almost no one, has noticed the religious tension that runs across Zaid's best poems. [...] A religious and metaphysical poet, Zaid is also-consequently-a love poet. In his love poems, poetry once again functions as a power that can transfigure reality. This transfiguration does not imply change or transformation, but unveiling, undressing: reality is shown as it is. The strangest thing of all is that things are as they are." Octavio Paz