Saturday, May 17, 2014

BIOGRAFIA







CARLOS LOPEZ DZUR

Born in San Sebastián del Pepino, Puerto Rico, Carlos López Dzur worked as a cultural journalist, a teacher, a government clerk and a book translator in Southern California. He is also a poet, historian and novelist. His poems, short-stories and articles has been published in a wide variety of media, including his own blogs. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between 60s Literary Generation and Setentistas, incorporating both views in his works. He consider himself one among the «wild children" of Whitman, the Beat movement and authors such as Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, anti-war poets like Adrienne Rich and Gary Snyder and he admire Puerto Rican authors like Nilita Vientós Gastón, Luis Rafael Sánchez, Joserramón Meléndes, Yvan Silén and others. López Dzur is concerned with politics, peace and war, Eastern mysticism, Tantra and sexuality throughout his early youth.

At the end of 2013, López published the three volumens of the serie «Tantralia». Some of Lopez Dzur's poetry has been set to music by an a Belarusian composer of orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, and piano works Galina Gorelova (Halina Harelava) as part of the Series Song-Cycle on Latin-American Poetry (texts by César Vallejo, Carlos López Dzur), baritone, piano, in 1986. Ms. Gorelova co-founded with Sergey Beltiukov, Vyacheslav Kuznetsov, Dmitry Lybin, Yevgeny Poplavsky (Yauhen Paplauski), and other composers the Belarusian Society for Contemporary Music in Minsk in 1990. López Dzur is one of the participating poets included in «[Per]versiones desde el paraíso: Poesía puertorriqueña de entresiglos» [ed. Aullido: Revista de Poesía [2005], ed. Umberto Stabile and Ana María Fuster Lavín He is Poetas del Mundo memberSee


PUBLISHED WORKS:

«Sarnas de la ira parda», short-stories [QeAser, ed. Joserramón Meléndes, 1980]

«El hombre extendido» [awarded by «Chicano Literary Contest», University of California, Irvine, 1986]

«Las máscaras del tabú», novel [Denver, 2001], 306 ps.

«Simposio de tlacuilos'\, novel [ENE, Octubre 2000], 229 ps.

«Comevacas y tiznaos: Las Partidas Sediciosas en el Pepino de 1898», monographical essay [Outskirst Press, Colorado, 2005], 228 ps.

«El corazón del monstruo», short-stories [Outskirst Press, Colorado, 2006], 350 ps.

«El ladrón bajo el abrigo», poetry [Casa de los Poetas, San Juan, 2013]

«Épica de San Sebastián del Pepino» [KoolTourActiva, San Juan, 2013], 194 ps.

«Las juderías», novel [Palibrio Editors, 2014], 346 ps. «Las hienas», novel [Lord Byron Editor, Madrid, 2014] .


UNPUBLISHED WORKS

Lope de Aguirre y los paraísos soñados
El libro de la guerra
El libro de anarquistas
Cuentos sediciosos y bolivarianos
La Revolución profunda
Memorias de la contracultura
Heideggerianas
Las zonas del carácter
Teth, mi serpiente
Tijuana, dolor de parto
Trece monografías de historia pepiniana [ensayos]
El Pueblo en sombras (short-stories)
Las sendas oscuras del esorpión
Leyendas históricas y cuentos coloraos [short-storiess]
Berkeley y yo [novel]
Diario de Simón Güeldres [novel]
Sidur (poetry)
Organum (poetry)

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