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    Abyss of Insanity
    Abyss of Insanity
    Abyss of Insanity
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    Abyss of Insanity

    By Roman de la Parra

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    Abyss of Insanity is a collection of poems with anti-poetic warp, with descriptive texts written in fragments to add rhythm and speed. Rich in images, it clearly represents the kind of poetry of the author. Recounts a moderate degree of retrospective nostalgia, showing passages and characters like a casual passerby that maybe wronged his path. That does not stop and does not interfere in the events. The author is only a makeshift photographer and opportunistic in his neighborhood every day, and why not, of its own existence. Without makeup the reality, he offers little stories in which not unlikely any of us were involved.

    Margarita Carvajal
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPalibrio
    Release dateFeb 28, 2013
    ISBN9781463351984
    Abyss of Insanity
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    Roman de la Parra

    Francisco Salinas Parra was born on a cold morning of July 1976 in Santiago, Chile. He is known in the literary environment as “Roman de la Parra”. Most of his life has been spent in his country, but some years ago he immigrated to Brazil where he spent a short time and currently resides with his family in USA. Roman understands poetry to be a manifestation of everyday, and necessary. Therefore it should be simple and accessible to the understanding of everybody. That assessment should harmonize with the verses of the father of the Anti-Poetry Nicanor Parra “the poets came down from Olympus”. Roman de la Parra portrays in his poetry environments and situations that we’ve all seen, recognized, and through which we stumble every day. He addresses poetry in a fun and often irreverent way, constructing their texts as a photo album, for which, he is the first to pose. Margarita Carvajal

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      Abyss of Insanity - Roman de la Parra

      Copyright © 2013 by Roman de la Parra.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Rev. date: 25/02/2013

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      Contents

      Acknowledgements

      Something

      A good poem

      A tale to wake up

      Agony

      Because

      Constellations

      D Day

      Epic of the Anti-Poet

      Excreting poetry

      Father

      Flow

      Flower

      Giselle, a childhood friend

      Happy Birthday

      Hell

      Hermetic

      Holocaust

      Involution

      It must be something pleasant

      Landscape

      Lord

      May 10

      Encounter with the famous singer

      Mother

      Not all roads lead me to meet her

      Numerical Science

      On the freeway

      One for the old man

      Poem for a dumpster diver and his daughter

      Poem for an assaulted transvestite

      Poem for lovers of tomorrow

      Poem for the girl that directed the choir

      Queen

      Race

      Reconstructive Cycle-Magic

      Respectfully

      Saturday night live

      So i became a poet

      So i looked for life

      Some afternoons were born to see the weak die

      Soya boy

      The dead musician

      The end of the world

      The inauspicious influence of daily envy

      The key to success

      The middle finger

      The missing

      The new house

      The night i thought about you in New Orleans

      The poetry

      The unfriendly angry brother in law

      The

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