Syllables on Hold / Silabas detenidas

Syllables on Hold, the title perhaps gives a glimpse of it, is a wide sample of the writing of Victor M. Navarro accumulated in recent years. Poems in which he pays tribute not only to his neighborhood but to the whole, to a city inhabited by essential writers: a city both loving and perverse, magnificently replicated in Javier Cordova’s illustrations.

There are no coincidences in poetry nor anything is left over, every casual encounter had to happen: Navarro is the man who from Tacubaya looks out into the world not to get out of there -the saying dictates that one should never leave the place-, but to meet once more with his favorite authors along these pages, decisively crafting every word and at the same time opening possibilities of meanings that invite the reader to give his own version of what is happening before his eyes.

Silabas detenidas, el titulo quizas lo deja entrever, es un amplio muestrario de la escritura de Victor M. Navarro acumulada en estos ultimos anos. Poemas en los que el rinde homenaje no solo a su barrio sino al conjunto, a una ciudad habitada por escritores imprescindibles: una urbe a la vez amorosa y perversa magnificamente replicada en las ilustraciones de Javier Cordova.

En poesia no hay casualidades ni sobra nada, todo encuentro fortuito tenia que darse: Navarro es el hombre que desde Tacubaya se asoma al mundo no para salir de ahi -el dicho marca que uno jamas debe irse-, sino para reencontrarse en estas paginas con sus autores predilectos, bordando con decision cada palabra y abriendo a la vez posibilidades de significados que invitan al lector a dar su propia version de lo que esta ocurriendo ante su vista.