kapital publikoa

jose luis otamendi

Do you remember that other poet who looked for a sharp arm, the latest one, the complete arm? Maybe poetry was that arm. Otamendi’s book seems slight but is actually full of substance, profound, whether in spite of being modern poetry or because it is. You can see that on the cover and in the title. A witness to harsh subjects, the poems soak you first and then enrage you. In this way the poet makes private feelings public. That’s how he copes with this period of extreme individualism.

orube abandonatuak

garazi kamio anduaga

The narrative resource used to link the three stories in this book has been seen before in literature and in films. Stories which happen in the same place but at different times. In this case, there are three of them: the stories of a man who leaves a civil war concentration camp and goes home; a woman who has managed to give up heroin at the start of the 80’s; a woman who, trapped by the current economic crisis, tells lies for a living. Three stories of solitude. The reader opens their front doors but, until the very end, does not find out that everything has happened in the same house.

pornotapados

paloma blanco

Pornotapados offers us an interesting and highly entertaining game. Taking hardcore porn photos and painting over them, Paloma Blanco gives us a collection of the actions we carry out every day. Suddenly magazines stars smoke a cigarette, wash the plates and play the saxophone, always with expressions of the greatest pleasure. Pornotapados is published in porn magazine format and paper, large photos and cheap shiny paper, and, in a strange, beautiful way, it’s very erotic.

guia del mal padre 1&2

guy deslise

Guy Deslise tells us about episodes from fatherhood in these two beautiful collections. There’s no cheap transcendence here. This is not one of the deep, corny reflections about fatherhood and motherhood which have become so fashionable. Humour (which is often black) and tenderness are used to make up this small format comic book based on his children’s experiences. The book suggests, indirectly, that having children is not so much a miracle as the most normal thing in the world.