“The writing is very elitist, very coffee. My old man wanted to publish all his life and because of things in life he never could, “he says. Mará del Mar Rodríguez a 0223 as an introduction to the presentation of “Eternal fires”, the poetry book that he edited with texts that Osvaldo, his father wrote and that in recent weeks reached the bookstores.
“Eternal fires” by Editorial Hinvisible emerged, according to the young woman “As an act of poetic justice.” Is that Maria found the texts after the death of her father in 2009 and he began to read them as a way of elaborating the duel. “My old man always wanted to publish but could not because of the economic crisis and his illness,” he explains.
“When he died and I began to read his poems as a way of working through the duel and meeting him, I published one of his poems in my first book (Historias Lobas), but I realized that I something was missing regarding my old man’s story and it occurred to me to publish a book with his poems as an act of poetic justice called Eternal Fires ”, he recalls.
When Osvaldo’s health condition worsened, he stopped writing and at his home in the neighborhood Los lobos beach piles of notebooks with neat manuscripts and some typed texts remained. “He was an unemployed person who wrote and that with the passage of time, due to his mental illness, he did not have the tools, ”says María del Mar. A decade later the texts were released.
After publication, the work of disseminating the work began, which was not easy. “I started to spread it and my mother died of breast cancer and I could not continue,” the young writer laments the time she relates that at that time, she could only make a small diffusion and announce that the sale of the texts was carried out by herself .
Now that I am a little better I am trying to spread the word story of an ordinary man and luckily he reached reading and writing spaces and a bookstore, which is what he wanted ”, says the young woman who clarifies that, despite the fact that the material is available in traditional shopping channels, she continues with the artisanal sales system
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