Field Guide

by Darío Jaramillo Agudelo, Don Share (Translator)

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Don Share. We cherish our illusions so that we can enter reality; and what we imagine can seem to us as real as what we actually see before our eyes every day. Suppose we were given a field guide designed to help us classify such things, to help us navigate our lives. The renowned Colombian love poet and novelist Dario Jaramillo Agudelo has provided us just such a useful--and fanciful--poetic reference work in his Guia para viajeros, translated from the Spanish by Don Share. In this book, which reads like a series of interrelated prose poems, you will encounter fantastic creatures whose behavior suggests new and previously undreamed of ways to obtain roses, to play music, to drink wine, to put words in a new, magical order, and even to fly. In this collection of charming yet slightly dark caprices, you will encounter a world of creatures whose foibles, romances, moods, and dreams resemble, strangely enough, our own.

66 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Poeta, novelista y ensayista colombiano nacido en Santa Rosa de Osos, Antioquia, en 1947.

Terminó el bachillerato en Medellín y posteriormente obtuvo el título de abogado y economista por la Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá.

Es el gran renovador de la poesía amorosa colombiana y uno de los mejores poetas de la segunda mitad del siglo XX de su país.

Su obra poética se caracteriza por un marcado corte intimista. También se ha destacado como brillante narrador y ensayista. Ha desempeñado importantes cargos culturales en organismos estatales y es miembro de los consejos de redacción de la revista "Golpe de Dados" y de la fundación particular "Simón y Lola Guberek".