My dear popcorn fans! ‘Architecture of the dream’: Poemary by Javier Mateo in Huerga y Fierro.
After a few days of great frenzy in the Spanish publishing world, the Madrid Book Fair its 83rd season ends this Sunday. An end to the party that must be looked at with optimism, enthusiasm and gratitude, and that also welcomes notable signatures.
Among the many that will meet, I want to highlight the Javier Mateo Hidalgofilm critic among other important performances in the territories of Culture, of which we have already reported from this space at the time in his extensive and excellent volume on the seventh art, From arrival by train to departure by caravan: 126 milestones in the history of cinema (1895-2021)which he edited in NPQ two years ago.
‘Architecture of the dream’: Poem by Javier Mateo in Huerga y Fierro
Well, the 36-year-old Madrid author has just published Dream architecture on the prestigious seal Huerga and Fierro. This is his fourth book of poems. where, as in his previous works, the author once again tests the creative limits of writing to offer a work original in appearance and content. In this case, exploring the labyrinthine paths of the human psyche, which so much define the personality of the individual.
An autobiographical book that structures its “human” or experiential corpus in the image of the different parts of a monastery, generating an atmosphere of stillness and calm, but also of mystery and reflection.
Biobibliographic note
Javier Mateo Hidalgo (Madrid, 1988) is a Doctor in Fine Arts, cultural critic and professor. He collaborates in newspapers such as The Impartial and magazines like Ethics, Zenda (XL Weekly), The notebook, Culturemas, music lover, Rhythm, Film Archives, cinema notebooks, Annals of Spanish Literature, CILH either Re-Visions.
He has published the following poetry collections: The vertical sea (Ayto. de Madrid, 2019 [accésit del Certamen Literario Leopoldo de Luis]), Ataraxia (Almadenes, 2022) and The sound image (Vitruvius, 2023).
