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Héctor Lira

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in Santiago, Chile

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https://www.hectorlira.com

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Poetry, Contemporary, Fiction

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William Carlos Williams Federico García Lorca Lucrecio Denise Levertov ...more

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May 2020

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Héctor Lira (Santiago de Chile, 1988). Ha publicado los poemarios Imaginar un hijo (Valparaíso Ediciones, 2022) y Recurso Humano (Buenos Aires Poetry, 2021; Editorial Deriva, 2019) en España, Argentina, Colombia y Chile. Fue parte de los talleres del escritor chileno Germán Carrasco. Sus poemas han sido traducidos al inglés e italiano y compartidos en revistas literarias de diferentes países como Círculo de Poesía, Vallejo & Company, Buenos Aires Poetry, Aullido, Casa Bukowski, Barbarie entre otras. Fue coproductor del largometraje Fragmentos de Lucía (2016) del director Jorge Yacoman. Desde 2022 reside en Barcelona.

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Héctor Lira's Blog

Temed a la muerte por agua | Germán Carrasco

Hay una boya en un mar bravo
y dos que se aman tratando de asirse
a la boya con desesperación

pero es resbaladiza de musgo y algas
es redonda y no tienen de dónde tomarla
es un muñeco porfiado siniestro

empieza a anochecer como en la montaña
en donde hay que llegar a la cumbre con sol
sin luz todo se pone muy complicado

deciden flotar de espaldas
controlar la respiración
y miran las estrellas.

por qué no fuim

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Average rating: 4.53 · 19 ratings · 1 review · 3 distinct works

	Recurso humano by Héctor Lira (Goodreads Author), Héctor Lira (Goodreads Author) 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fragmentos de un idiota 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Imaginar un hijo 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Rizoma: Introducción

by Gilles Deleuze

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Literary Theory: An Anthology (Blackwell Anthologies)

by Julie Rivkin

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Aceleracionismo: Estrategias para una transición hacia el poscapitalismo

by Armen Avanessian

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