Description
Hitting a Father
Book Summary
Guillermo Morales Sillas presents a collection of poems that explores the relationship between language, memory, and the paternal figure from a radically free perspective. In "Hitting a Father," the author questions how we use words to construct, distort, or illuminate our personal and collective history. With a bold and uncompromising poetic voice, the book delves into the folds of family heritage, authority, and identity, offering the reader a literary experience that defies genre conventions and invites them to rethink the bonds that define us.
What is it about?
The work is constructed as an exercise in expressive freedom where language is both a tool and a battlefield. Through a series of poems that oscillate between intimate confession and philosophical reflection, Morales Sillas investigates the complexity of the paternal figure, not merely as a symbol of authority, but as a mirror in which the speaker's contradictions are refracted. The book traverses memory, resentment, forgiveness, and the need to name the unnameable, using a style that plays with syntax, repetition, and semantic rupture. Each poem is an attempt to dismantle inherited narratives to find a language of one's own, even if through the symbolic violence of the title: hitting a father with words.
Main Themes
- The conflicting and transformative relationship with the paternal figure.
- Language as an instrument of power, liberation, and distortion of reality.
- Personal memory and its capacity to rewrite family history.
- Identity constructed from heritage and generational rupture.
- Creative freedom as an act of resistance against poetic conventions.
Who is it recommended for?
This book is aimed at readers of contemporary poetry interested in risky and unconventional proposals. It is especially recommended for those who seek a work that engages with the lyrical tradition through formal and thematic transgression. It will also be of interest to those exploring family dynamics, memory, and language from a critical and emotional perspective.
What this book offers
- A lucid and provocative look at how language shapes our most intimate relationships.
- A reading experience that defies expectations about what a poem can be.
- An honest and unfiltered exploration of the emotional complexity involved in the figure of the father.
- An example of poetry that prioritizes creative freedom over established norms.
Technical Sheet
- Author: Morales Sillas, Guillermo
- Publisher: La Bella Varsovia
- Language: Spanish
- Subject: POETRY, POETRY BY INDIVIDUAL POETS
- Collection: POETRY
- Binding: Paperback
- Publication date: March 2016
- Number of pages: 100
- Weight: 152 g
Editorial Assessment
"Hitting a Father" is a poetic proposal that stands out for its formal audacity and its ability to challenge the reader from the very first page. Guillermo Morales Sillas demonstrates a mastery of language that allows him to play with its limits without losing the book's emotional trajectory. It is a work that does not seek to please, but to interrogate, and that makes it a valuable read for those who appreciate poetry as a space of conflict and revelation. Recommended for those who wish to confront their own ideas about heritage, authority, and the word.