Vaho/Mist - Fuentes Vargas, Javier

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Résumé :
All Vaho seems to long to be a corpse or sing its worms with two tongues. To say mist would be to become her. In this house, only what is not named is not transfigured into tears because names are out of date. Javier Fuentes Vargas is the child who hides his mouth, more than his face, in the mist - I remember to name his shadow, the locked thirst of his hands that are giving account, in these poems, of loneliness, of a house all made for death, to look for the hard stone because that one no longer feels (and I have also looked for that stone on the sidewalks), of the chance a Hermes (winged savior of loneliness) arrives to saffron us in the bilingual reading of Javier without the masks that we give ourselves by sublimating our foggy faces into sounds through this book. ...

Biographie:
Javier Fuentes Vargas (Santa Ana, El Salvador, 2000). Estudiante de Antropolog?a Sociocultural en la Universidad de El Salvador. Colaborador en la edici?n de la revista literaria Obsidiana. Ha participado en diferentes eventos y lecturas a nivel nacional e internacional. Su poes?a ha sido publicada en diferentes revistas impresas y digitales de M?xico, Guatemala, Argentina, Colombia, Eslovenia, Espa?a y El Salvador. Menci?n de honor en el festival internacional Premio a la palabra por Duele Igual (Argentina, 2019). Finalista del XVII concurso literario Gonzalo Rojas Pizarro por Vaho (Chile, 2020). Obra publicada: La muerte llegar? (Artesanos & Editores, El Salvador, 2019), Un lugar donde espero no morir sin conocer el odio (Incendio Plaquettes, Guatemala, 2021) y pr?ximamente Vaho (FlowerSong Press, Estados Unidos, 2021). Ha sido traducido al ingl?s y esloveno.Javier Fuentes Vargas (Santa Ana, El Salvador, 2000). Sociocultural Anthropology student at the University of El Salvador. Collaborator in the edition of the literary magazine Obsidiana. He has participated in different events and readings nationally and internationally. His poetry has been published in different printed and digital magazines in Mexico, Guatemala, Argentina, Colombia, Slovenia, Spain and El Salvador. Honorable mention at the international festival Premio a la voz for Duele Igual (Argentina, 2019). Finalist of the XVII Gonzalo Rojas Pizarro literary contest for Vaho (Chile, 2020). Published work: La muerte llegar? (Artesanos & Editores, El Salvador, 2019), Un lugar donde espero no morir sin conocer el odio (Incendio Plaquettes, Guatemala, 2021) and soon Vaho/Mist (FlowerSong Press, United States, 2021). It has been translated into English and Slovenian.