Juan Guillermo Sánchez was born in Bakatá-Andes in 1980. He has published the poetry books Rio (2010) and Salvia (2014); the book of short stories Diarios de nada (2011); the novels Balada / Track (2012) and Elevador (2015); the anthology Indigenous Message of Water (2014); and the research project Memory and Invention in the Poetry of Humberto Ak'abal (2011). In 2016, he was awarded with the National Prize for Literature in Colombia, granted by the University of Antioquia. He is currently a professor at UNC-Asheville.
The initial idea of this book, according to the author—who is not me, I’m just her pet and her instrument of inspiration—was to write fifteen stories, all in the first…
Lenta, en gris / con tormenta adentro / llega la noche // con luna en Cáncer y / Marte en las mareas / mi sangre / sube hacia el corazón…
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