[la desnudez es la materia del desborde]

Poetry
Written By Rey Andújar

la desnudez es la materia del desborde
de tu boca llena de pájaros
pueblo despojado decir pueblo es ponerse en peligro
una navaja en la lengua
lengua que cubre o que adorna
sin bienes
o fortuna

sueño con un regreso
que rellene el hueco entre el hueso y la carne
arraigado en la sal
cárcel de isla
guiño de acero
haciéndote fecunda sin medida

me vengaré siete veces del que escupa tu nombre
seré el primero que invoque tu nombre
forjaré el hierro ante los negligentes

así baila aquí la sangre
sustancia negruzca
la fracción más pesada del petróleo
tu nombre aterido
impermeable en muros y tejados

sueño con un regreso
el corazón imaginado
congrega los espíritus de mis vivos

 
Rey Andújar

Born in Santo Domingo, Rey Andújar is the author of various works of fiction. His novel Candela (Alfaguara, 2008) received an award from the PEN Club of Puerto Rico and was chosen as one of the best novels of the year by the newspaper El Nuevo Día. His short story collection Amorcidio received the Premio de Cuento Joven de la Feria del Libro in 2007 and was subsequently published by Agentes Catalíticos in Puerto Rico. Saturnario, another short story collection,won the Premio Letras de Ultramar 2010. It was translated into English by Kolin Jordan and published by Sietevientos in Chicago and Mexico.

His performance piece Ciudadano Cero was part of the Festival Internacional de Teatro Santo Domingo in 2006 and was the inaugural piece of the Teatro Victoria Espinoza in Santurce and of the Festival Internacional de Teatro in Puerto Rico in 2007. Another performance piece, Antípoda, debuted in El Viejo San Juan and was presented in Santo Domingo, Paris, and various cities in the U.S. and Mexico.

Andújar lives in Chicago, where he teaches Spanish and Latin American literature. He is a doctoral candidate in philosophy and letters at the Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe.

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