Author Event: Eduardo Urios-Aparisi
Eduardo Urios-Aparisi, author of the bilingual Las hormigas de oro / Ants of Gold, recently gave a reading at the University of Connecticut. The Daily Campus, University of Connecticut's paper, quoted Urios-Aparisi as saying, "Poetry is an art-form that must be spoken, he said, and should convey 'whatever is happening at the moment.'"
For Eduardo Urios-Aparisi poetry is above all, word, spoken word. Word that commits, pronounces, sounds. Word that leaves knots in the voice. For Urios, words play and challenge to play, to conceive the world from different and unsuspected points of view. The poems reflect the senses of the poet; moment to moment, in seduction, abandonment, and loss. It is reality flowing and always fleeing; fragmentary, accelerated, changing and unattainable.