Juan de la Fuente Umetsu
Juan de la Fuente Umetsu (Lima, Peru 1963). Poet, journalist and editor. Recognized in the Municipality of Lima (1981), Manuel González Prada (1985) and El Poeta Joven del Perú (1985) competitions. He has also earned distinction in the 1990 and 2007 versions of the Copé Poetry Prize. Author of the poetry books Declaration of Absence (ASALTOALCIELO, Editores, 1999), Las barcas que se desdede del sol (Tranvías Editores, 2008), La beauty no It is a place (Carpe Diem, Editora, 2010), Bridges to cross the night (Paracaídas Editores, 2016) and Vide Cor Tuum (Perro de Ambiente Editor, 2017). His work appears in various national and international publications, such as Peruvian Poetry of the 20th century by Ricardo González Vigil (2000), Mobile Waters by Paul Guillén (2016), Report of the Third International Poetry Festival of Lima (2016) and Fugitive and eternal (anthology of the IV International Poetry Festival of Madrid 2018). [*Photo courtesy of Juan Carlos Caballero.]
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Sept. 17, 2020 • Juan de la Fuente Umetsu , traci kato-kiriyama
This month, we have the honor of presenting a single poem by Juan de la Fuente Umetsu, poet, journalist and editor born in Lima, Peru, in 1963. After reading it using an informal translation (read: Google translate) of the poem, I asked my partner to call her mother, a pianist who also happened to be a native Spanish speaker from Lima, Peru. Together we went over each line and I had a greater appreciation of the poem. This piece is …
