The Melilla poet Fernando Fiesta presents his new book in Madrid

Fernando Fiestas, born in Melilla in 1962, presented his book “Where Nobody Directs the Look” in the capital of Spain this Friday, April 26. He was accompanied by the editor Pablo Méndez and the journalist and poet Laura Gómez Recas, who spoke about the originality and the lyrical world built from a precise scenography where the author talks about his relationship with the surrounding othernesses. It consists of 37 poems and is divided into four parts within that approach to the interior of experiences, especially what can go unnoticed in routine daily life, as the title indicates. They are short poems, without titles. “Where Nobody Looks” won second place in the award organized annually by the Vitruvio publishing house. And it is worth remembering that Fernando Fiestas won several awards in his career, both literary and pictorial, of which the Soledad Escassi and the Painting of the House of Melilla in Malaga should be highlighted. Previously, he published the books “Sometimes the Visible”, “Words for Other Voices”, “In the Common Tremor” and “Lessons in Fables”. There are some copies in La Librería de Melilla and in the Municipal Library. The career of Fernando Fiestas in his literary facet starts from his first readings of the French Symbolists during his time as a high school student in bilingual editions of Mallarmé, Rimbaud, Baudelaire and, above all, Paul Valéry. And as Laura Gómez Recas points out in her analysis of the book, we are now faced with a different work, with a sharper emotional definition. For her, the author’s poetic work cannot be separated from his pictorial work since he seeks with both facets to unravel the secrets of the human world. She also pointed out the work of the Austro-Hungarian master Rainer María Rilke as a notable influence and brought up a phrase of his addressed to the young poet in his famous letters: “Look for the depths of things: irony never descends there.” She brought it up because it is the one that best defines the author’s attitude of seeking the unnoticed and the difficult to understand. He dispenses with ironies and uses symbols from subjectivity. As usual, the painter and poet has the idea of ​​​​managing new future presentations in other places and, of course, in Melilla, which will be announced in due course.

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