Keywords: Language, Life, Nature, Destiny, Haiku, International Poetry.
mínimos minuscules
Adalber Salas Hernández
English-Spanish
illustrations by Yonel Hernández
translated from Spanish by Robin Myers
2025
Paperback | 176 pages | 5 x 8 inches
daughter
i hold you in my dazzled
hands
you are the weight
of what has barely
chosen to exist
you are the difficult
exacting fruit
of this uncertainty
no paradise
exerts its rights
on you
just yet
In this book, language and life, contemplation, wonder and uncertainty are intertwined. It is above all the evocation of a paternal voice that invites us to look at the world with new eyes.
Adalber Salas Hernández (Caracas, 1987). Poet, essayist, and translator. His book "Salvoconducto" (Safe Conduct) was awarded the 36th Arcipreste de Hita Poetry Prize, published by the Spanish publisher Pre-Textos in 2015. He has translated works by Marguerite Duras, Antonin Artaud, Rimbaud, Charles Wright and Mário De Andrade. He serves on the editorial boards of the journals Poesía and Buenos Aires Poetry. He is pursuing doctoral studies at New York University.
Yonel Hernández (Caracas, 1981). Venezuelan graphic designer and illustrator. In 2018 he presented his first individual “Gestos mínimos. Yonel Hernández”, at the Sala Mendoza Foundation in Caracas. He has participated in several group exhibitions, national and international, throughout his career. His work was selected for the Ibero-American Design Biennial in 2020 and 2022. He recently presented his individual exhibition “Verme, Vernos” at the ABRA gallery in Caracas.