Brown Sugar Skin [Book Presentation]

Victor Fernández (Mérida, Yucatán, 1945) is a physician, literacy advocate and founder of Centro Cultural Lorca [Lorca Cultural Center], site of the Fernández Trava A.C. Foundation. Since 2015, he's been running the "Confidentes Poéticos" [Poetic Confidantes], a poetry reading group. As an act of resistance, week after week he prints and distributes literary anthologies that he puts together from his personal library.

More than three decades after Amor debido (Dante Plural, 1986) was published, he now brings us Mascabada su Piel [Brown Sugar Skin]. In Mascabada su piel [Brown Sugar Skin], the author combines his early work with some of his more recent productions. In these lines we can hear the voice of an elderly child who, with nostalgic joy, captures the fragility of a decadent world; in his eyes, however, the outside world is still something to be amazed at, always open to luminous interpretations. His poetry is simple on the surface, but it reaches depths only available through the experience of old age. Regardless of the time spent far away from the literary scene, Victor relies on his craftsmanship and disciplined reading to bring a breath of fresh air to Mexican literature.