Paperback – 50 pages

Con voz clara y potente, Hambre nuevava retratando instantes del mundo del trabajo, de la familia, de la enferma ciudad; vidas marcadas por la incertidumbre constante y generaciones de sueos rotos en una isla que es a la vez crucero y crcel. En medio de la ruina y la rutina, el hablante lrico contempla lo aparentemente irrelevante para extraer el sentido profundo de las cosas con amorosa minucia, pues aunque parezca debatirse entre la desesperanza y la esperanza, triunfa lo segundo en este sorprendente poemario que an apuesta a la posibilidad salvfica de la poesa, la solidaridad y la naturaleza.

– Kattia Chico

Two hungers are at play in Carlos Coln Ruizs New Hunger. Onethe hunger to which the book owes its titleis the poets own: the pulsating desire to quench an existential vacuum as he roams the aisles of the supermarket he works in. A second hunger, howevernot as new, and not as obviousis also at play: the hunger of an ongoing routine, of an insurmountable dread, that threatens to swallow him whole. It is this secondary hunger, an ancestral hunger, if you will, that Carlos A. Coln Ruiz rebels against, verse by verse, with a hunger of his own. His poetry, then, becomes a bout of appetites. When he talks about a new hunger, thus, he talks, quite literally, about the poets survival in a world that claims to have no need for him.

– Luis B. Mndez del Nido

Traductor: Roberto Guzmn