{"product_id":"selected-poems-9781848619302","title":"Selected Poems","description":"\"Luis Miguel Aguilar's work is a conversation, between the past and the present, between the educated and the lay person, between useless details and essentials, between erudite data and vital impulses. It is not a spur of the moment conversation, but one that arises from the serenity of an extended, long-term approach, tying up loose ends and giving rise to complete, complex and exalted theories.\" -Juan Manuel Gómez \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Aguilar's poetry is unlike any other from Mexico in recent decades. Perhaps such a deliberately isolated position is even arrogant. It is a superior option in contemporary Mexican literature.\" -José Joaquín Blanco\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"There are poets who are born mature, broad-browed and clear of vision. Luis Miguel Aguilar is one of them. Each book is a gift full of surprises, riddles and enigmas that invite the reader to reread, piece by piece, to savour them: there is an erudite, cultured, referential voice; then there is a more melodic, simple voice that recites ballads and popular songs; and finally there is the intimate monologue, which deals with the familiar \u003cem\u003eterroir\u003c\/em\u003e and tries to decipher the meaning of life, with all its furies and its sorrows.\" -Arturo Dávila\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"His is a work and a voice that, as part of contemporary Mexican poetry, gives it weight and horizons that cannot be refuted. As a reader, I am grateful for this 'difficult minute' that Luis Miguel Aguilar has had to live through, which he says is between the vehement minute and the cowardly minute, adding: 'poetry is the difficult minute'.\" -José Javier Villarreal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Shearsman Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50641331257618,"sku":"9781848619302","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bce09fad-981a-45bc-80e6-03314421bace.jpg?v=1733011894","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/selected-poems-9781848619302","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}