Devoured by the Moon

Poetry. Translation. Translated from the Spanish by Steven J. Stewart. Before his death in 2000, Rafael Perez Estrada was one of contemporary Spain’s most imaginative and unique writers. He created a body of work that often defies classification, crafting fantastic realities from myth, fable, and his own Mediterranean surroundings. Perez Estrada’s writing has been compared to that of Borges and Calvino for the way it incorporates the fantastic to alter our perception of reality. An heir to the great masters of the weird such as Michaux and Kafka, [Perez Estrada] creates a protean world born from the fabric of our culture and that of many other worlds. In his poems we enhoy and fear being introduced to people, objects, and beings already known to us; we find the lost key as well as new connections and correspondences existing in our time–Juan Carlos Galeano.