Recommended reading: “The lighthouse of the elves”

The lighthouse of the elves brings together eighteen poems written by Javier López Trezza throughout the year 2024, probably, as an internal journey. The writing of this eighth work of his authorship seems to be born from a vital impulse, from a need to say the unspeakable, and it unfolds in a language that oscillates between crudeness and revelation.

In this book, the journalist and writer builds a poetic space where introspection coexists with the elements. The poems explore human fragility and urban confusion from a voice that is assumed to be aware of its fissures. There is no decorative rhetoric but a word that is offered nakedlike someone looking in the mirror without filters.

In «The wound«, the author delves into the most opaque areas of the soul to understand the way in which suffering can become knowledge. In «The viewpoint”, the gaze moves towards the everyday.

Even in the shortest texts, such as “Manifest«, there is a poetic maturity capable of condensing in a few words a declaration of vital meaning: «Without her I would have been at the mercy of oblivion, in the suburbs of life”.

The title of the book, The Lighthouse of the Elves, proposes an ambiguous and powerful image where the lighthouse is illumination and the elves, on the other hand, represent the hidden, the mischievous, the unconscious.

This book -prologued by –Yesica Bernardou– confirms that poetry remains a place of revelation, a territory in which the word can reignite consciousness.