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The fifth corner of the ring, Paola Valverde

still in the geography of the rainforest, where it rained also the death of Ernesto Sabato in the tunnel. In the X Festival Internacional de Costa Rica I find very good poets and best friends, with different jurisdictions, with changing resources. All traditions merge, because there is a single language, not a single school, not an accurate way to dismiss all the others.

test these multiple discourses is the book The fifth corner of the ring , Paola Valverde Alier. Published in a stunning, carefully editing cartonera, recycled paper, Fifth corner of the ring proposes a verbal dialogue in boxing it mixes with love, and the construction of an identity, which remains, in this side of the ocean, one of the main themes of the new poetry. The book is structured as a ring-in fact, presented on a ring, there was a real fight and the author also boxed, so the book becomes a direct action of the poem, and the fight progresses through different rounds :

"In my fists
lives a stone
open a butterfly.
fly anyway."

Pavlov Bitch is the nom de guerre of the boxer-poet. There are gamblers and a good set of legs: "I remember being bitten / flower wasps." It's great poem Hook, and Billy Gallardo :

"My old promoter visit the contest last row

popcorn and beer.
any viewer not
Billy Gallardo returns to the scene
and legs.
picture on the cover unforeseen
figures.
Pavlov's dog looks on.
Billy Gallardo disguised his innocence
hat / glasses guilty conscience


boxers combined in the table of war. " Atmosphere

ring, like a movie title poeticized black with white photography black and with that a bit expressionistic chiaroscuro towels, gloves bands. It's like the beginning of a drama caught between the ropes.

On the count of ten , Campana, Belt, Veteran , Fall, kiss the canvas, are poems that lead to over a prolonged combat, which poetic matter thins as energy, power stroke, more concise and contained. portrait of adolescence is a tender poem about the rebellion, the courage to be a woman boxer, a woman-poet, on the canvas increasingly harsh language and life.

Fifth corner of the ring is a book of poems I would have liked to Budd Schulberg, after writing his novel, then movie with Humphrey Bogart, Harder They Fall . But enough of talks, or writes Paola Valverde:

"Shock gloves and go on fighting."

(Image: Hanna Gabriels, Costa Rican boxer.
super welterweight world champion)