Syllables on Hold / Víctor M. Navarro
Navarro’s work in Syllables on Hold stands out in the best of contemporary poetry for its associations of images and verbal spins of great will; however, it has obvious winks towards the Mexican writers most loved by the author while essays multiple interpolations with world literature.
Syllables on Hold is a large sample of the writing of Víctor M. Navarro that has accumulated in recent years. Poems that pay homage not only to his neighborhood but to the whole, to a city populated by essential writers: a city that is loving and perverse at the same time.
ALWAYS DAYS
I renew the buildings of my existence /
the gaze beyond the gaze /
the folders and the leafless notebook /
little is left of my reluctance /
that rented flat and its mould /
the room furnished with memories /
the twelve-year-old girl of whipping kisses /
the neighborhood’s wretched cabaret and waiters /
the infinite drunkenness of the poem /
this gray hair that is not because of holding back desire /
incipient serpentine death /
and the days always the days.
