Before the Dark Comes

In this voyage of ‘ shut’ eyes and the ‘ fantastic’ , in these elongated tunnels and fissures, moans and quests, lives clash and bleed, battle, create, rebel, destroy. Dante in his descent, Dalí with bejeweled brushes, Pessoa in many masks, Dogen in his wisdom tincture, burners of illusion, here Mantecó n rages, kneels and rises. A rare voice, a rare poetics these days— open the inscape, explode the outscape. Meet Mantecó n head on. Muy bravo!’ --Juan Felipe Herrera

Arturo Mantecó n is a poet and literary translator.