Historias del Cielo

Con Historias del cielo, la destacada escritora Mara Rosa Lojo, recientemente galardonada con la Medalla Europea de Poesa y Arte Homero (Bruselas, 2021), "impulsada por la pasin de la paradoja", nos regala una lrica original de fascinante variedad temtica y de gneros con alcances universales. Un conjunto innovador de poemas, prosas poticas, microficciones lricas y fabulas que aproximan el cielo como reference para imaginarlo con sentimientos encontrados de horror, esperanza, y hablar detalladamente de madres, hijos, vida y muerte, las palabras de los maestros verdaderos y apcrifos (incluidos santos, textos sagrados y chamanes), las "cosas de Dios", recreando simblicamente personajes, configuracin de lugares, realidades en dos dimensiones contrastadas: la conocida y la imaginada, siempre de la mano de "la metfora viva de Ricoeur, chocante, revulsiva, sorprendente", segn la propia aurora. Este libro de lujo es un ejemplo ms de lo que afirm Olga Orozco: "Mara Rosa Lojo sabe rastrear lo invisible y descifrar lo secreto". Forma parte de su vida y obra de continua indagacin ontolgica. El reconocido traductor Brett Alan Sanders realizo la version en ingles de esta maravillosa creacin literaria: Historias del cielo. With Heaven Stories, the accomplished writer Mara Rosa Lojo, recently awarded the Homer European Medal of Poetry and Art (Brussels, 2021), "driven by a passion for paradox," gifts us with an original and universally resonant lyric of fascinating thematic variety and genres. This book - an innovative mixture of poems, poetic prose, lyrical microfictions, and fables which, as they approach heaven, serve as referents for imagining it with felt sentiments of terror and hope - speaks of mothers, children, life and death, the words of true and apocryphal teachers (including saints, sacred texts, and shamans), and "God's affairs." It symbolically recreates personages, realities, and the configuration of places in two contrasted dimensions: the known and the imagined, always employing "The lively metaphor of Ricoeur, offensive, revulsive, surprising," according to the author herself This luxurious book is one more example of what Olga Orozco asserted: "Mara Rosa Lojo knows how to track the invisible and to decipher the secret." It forms a part of her continual life's work of querying the nature of being. The respected translator Brett Alan Sanders produced the English-language version of this marvelous literary creation: Heaven Stories.