Continuing with its scheduled literary events, the Atalaya Ateneo Club of Cieza has organized, in collaboration with La Fea Burguesía Ediciones, the presentation of the book "Palestine in the Heart," by the Cieza-born poet and physician Pascual López Sánchez. The event will take place on Wednesday, June 19, at 8:00 p.m., at the Atalaya Club. López Sánchez will be accompanied by Antonio Balsalobre.
When the most tragic news keeps arriving from Gaza, repeating itself like a sea that never stops beginning, as Paul Valéry would say; when a Hernandian storm "of stones, lightning, and strident axes, thirsty for catastrophes" never ceases to lash that land and that people, this beautiful and painful book by Pascual López Sánchez reaches our hands. This paean to Palestine. Amidst bombs that destroy homes and hospitals, the hunger that kills, or amidst thousands of Gazan children buried in their white shrouds, Pascual cries out with his verses, both warm and steely, against a genocide that shakes the world. At least, a world worthy of compassion for the suffering of others.
New collection of poems by Pascual López
Pascual has once again given us a work of immense poetic depth. Poetic and humane. As a doctor, he cannot help but rebel against these times of war and shrapnel raining down on hospitals. As a poet, his verses throb in response to the cries of children and mothers who have died, without milk, without songs.
From his first verses as a young student until now, a seasoned poet, Pascual López Sánchez has demonstrated a keen artistic sensibility, an innate ability to express himself. Not in vain is he one of the most erudite poetry readers I know. From all this springs a verse of rare formal perfection, full of superb metaphors that flutter with so much expression. A poetry that carries dreams of justice and freedom.
The crime was in Gaza, the genocide is taking place in Palestine, Pascual denounces. And his wound bleeds. Yet, even overwhelmed by so much exhausted memory, deaf ears from so much crying, the poet still finds lilies and roses among the rubble, and a coming hope in spring for this massacred people.
The author:
Pascual López Sánchez was born in Cieza in 1952. He was a doctor by profession until his retirement in 2016. He is the author of the following collections of poetry: Credo, Alone with God, The Hidden Moon, Nefelibata, and I Propose the Following to You. He has participated in the following anthologies: Open Verse, Bridge of Utopias, Ten Plus Ten, New Poetic Voices from the Region of Murcia I, and To Find Ourselves. In 2022, he published Latido with La Fea Burguesía Ediciones. He is currently one of the moderators of the Aires de Libertad International Poetry Forum.
Free admission to the event.