Description
OKOLOGIE
Book Summary
Okologie is a poetic work that delves into the essential through the primordial elements: earth, water, fire, air, and sky. Miguel Ángel Curiel invites us to a reading experience that is, at once, an act of searching and discovery. Like a gleaner finding fruit where nothing seems to remain, the poet explores the void and matter to illuminate a new truth. This book offers dense, visual poetry deeply connected to nature, far removed from the conventional and closer to an almost pre-Socratic vision of the world.
What is it about?
The poetry collection is built upon the metaphor of the gleaner, someone who gathers what others have left behind. Curiel applies this perspective to language and experience, extracting poetry from what appears exhausted or scorched. Throughout its pages, the author squeezes the five primordial elements, without ever losing sight of the void that contains them. The poem becomes scorched earth, a place for stubble-gathering and fertile contamination. The writing carves a path through the undergrowth, wounding, uprooting, and exhuming an ancient pain, unmooring the reader in that search. Influenced by German expressionism, the work presents itself as an event: it does not fit into an existing order, but rather illuminates the unpredictable and springs forth like a previously unconsidered truth. The poet needs to incorporate things, to eat them to know what they are like, and only sees in backlit view, making the world's traces resonate to create his present.
Main Themes
- The primordial elements (earth, water, fire, air, and sky) as the basis of the poetic experience.
- Searching and gleaning as a metaphor for creation and the discovery of the essential in what is apparently exhausted.
- The void as a container and condition of possibility for matter and being.
- The relationship between language, pain, and nature, explored from an expressionist perspective.
- Poetry as an event that breaks through and illuminates an unpredictable truth.
Who is it recommended for?
This book is aimed at readers of contemporary poetry looking for an original voice with great symbolic intensity. It is ideal for those who appreciate a lyricism that moves away from the narrative to delve into the essential and the philosophical, with influences from the pre-Socratic tradition and German expressionism. It will also interest those who enjoy poetry that demands active reading, capable of finding meaning in fragmentation and density.
What this book offers
- A poetic experience that invites us to rediscover the world from a primordial and essential perspective.
- A work that connects the tradition of gleaning with contemporary literary creation.
- A visual and sensory language that transforms reading into an act of incorporation and knowledge.
- A profound reflection on the void, matter, and the possibility of finding beauty where everything seems lost.
Technical Specifications
- Author: Miguel Ángel Curiel
- Publisher: Huerga y Fierro Editores
- Language: Spanish
- Subject: Poetry by individual poets, Literary essays
- Collection: Essay
- Binding: Paperback
- Publication date: April 2023
- Number of pages: 154
- Weight: 235 g
Editorial Review
Okologie presents itself as a unique poetic proposal within the current landscape. Miguel Ángel Curiel's work stands out for its ability to merge an archaic gaze with contemporary sensitivity, creating a reading space that is both intimate and universal. His focus on the primordial elements and the void, combined with writing that wounds itself to find its truth, makes it a recommended read for those seeking poetry that does not settle for the obvious and demands profound involvement from the reader.