Featured Author: Eugenio Montejo
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In a poem meaningfully entitled “Creo en la vida” [I believe in life], Venezuelan poet Eugenio Montejo (1938-2008) affirmed: “but I am an atheist of nothing / except death.” This was his way of regist... -
Eugenio Montejo (1938-2008) was not only a poet, a creator of poems. He was, above all, a man who sought throughout his life to make of life, and of his poetry, a full and continuous communion with th... -
Since its beginnings, the essay has been characterized by its emphatic conversion of subjectivity into an issue of concern. Michel de Montaigne’s “To the Reader” was clear, if defiant, on the subject:... -
Throughout the writing career of Eugenio Montejo, spanning some forty years – nearly fifty if we include the early and largely disowned Humano paraíso [Human Paradise] (1959) –, the figu... -
Any inhabited territory becomes a cosmos. To give a territory cosmic orientation is to cosmicize it. It is impossible to civilize a territory, to imprint it with a truly human significance, if it has... -
The trees speak so little, you know. / They spend their entire life meditating / and moving their branches. -
Nowadays, anyone who feels drawn towards an apprenticeship in poetry, despite the many impediments which might dissuade them from it, whether for good or ill, can finally embark on their vocation by m... -
The following drafts of the poem "Final sin fin" [Ending without end] were a gift from Venezuelan poet Eugenio Montejo to Arturo Gutiérrez Plaza, fellow poet and Associate Editor of Latin American... -
The brief messages transcribed above, which Eugenio Montejo wrote to me in August of 2005, account for the beginnings of a project conceived of by the author of Terredad [Earthness] himself, wh...
