My Father - Moga, Eduardo

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Résumé :
Eduardo Moga holds a Law Degree and a PhD in Spanish Philology from the University of Barcelona. He has published 18 poetry books, the main ones being La luz o?da (1996), Las horas y los labios (2003), Cuerpo sin m? (2007), Bajo la piel, los d?as (2010), Insumisi?n (2013), El coraz?n, la nada (Antolog?a po?tica 1994-2014) (2014), Muerte y amapolas en Alexandra Avenue (2017), and Mi padre (2019). His poetry has been translated into English (Selected Poems, Shearsman Books, 2017), Portuguese, French, Catalan, Italian, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Ukrainian and Albanian. He has translated Ramon Llull, Frank O'Hara, ?variste Parny, Charles Bukowski, Carl Sandburg, Arthur Rimbaud, William Faulkner, Walt Whitman, Richard Aldington, Tess Gallagher and Evan S. Connell, among other authors. He currently writes as a literary cr?tic for Letras Libres, Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, Turia and Quimera, among other cultural media. He is responsible for the anthologies Los versos sat?ricos. Antolog?a de poes?a sat?rica universal (2001), Poes?a pasi?n. Doce j?venes poetas espa?oles (2004), Medio siglo de oro. Antolog?a de la poes?a contempor?nea en catal?n (2014), Yo soy el Poema de la Tierra (2019), and Streets Where to Walk Is to Embark. Spanish Poets in London (Shearsman Books, 2019). He has also published travel books, such as La pasi?n de escribil (2013) and El mundo es ancho y diverso (2018)...

Biographie:
and several volumes of diaries and essay, the most recent being, among the former, Exp?n, que algo queda (2021) and, among the latter, El oro de la sintaxis (2020). He has been director of the Editora Regional de Extremadura and coordinator of the Reading Promotion Plan of Extremadura. He maintains the blogs Cor?nicas de Ingalaterra and Cor?nicas de Espa?ia....

Sommaire:
Like a glazier reconstructing a mirror broken into a hundred shards, Eduardo Moga assembles a portrait of his father, thirty years after his death, from tiny sharp fragments of memory. This is no idealized patriarch but an ordinary man who has lived almost his whole life in the grey, grey hardscrabble years of the Franco dictatorship when it was 'as if everybody's feet smelt'. He is seen with a forensic clarity through now a child's, now an adult's eyes and across the gulf that education, relative prosperity and happier times inevitably create. He is sometimes absurd in his opinions and little vanities, sometimes off-putting in his personal habits, angry, lost, pitiable, but often kind and wanting to pass on his erratic wisdom. Most of all, and this is Moga's great achievement, he is a real living person. Moga writes with lyrical depth about fathers who bequeath the best of themselves to their sons and sow only distance, and about sons who cannot forgive their fathers' vulgarity and cannot forgive their own estrangement and lack of sympathy. Jos? ?ngel Cilleruelo, El Balc?n de Enfrente In this splendid book Eduardo Moga dissects not just the story of a family but the story of Spain. Francisco H. Gonz?lez, Devaneos...