Ese golpe de luz
​Gabriel González Núñez

Ese Golpe de Luz offers a detailed recount of poetic observations, a circular voyage from the cosmos to life's routines. González Núñez presents this poetry collection like someone opening the doors to his house, with a domestic simplicity that makes us re-discover what nurtures us. Without delay, this door's entrance transforms into a kaleidoscope, allowing us to see, feel colors, and forms like a cosmogenic convergence. Forty-one poems are offered with an explicit description, which prepares the reader. González Núñez invites us to continue our visit inside this large house, the book, where questions start forming a dialog that elevates us to the heavens, guiding us — a la muerte/ ese nacimiento insalvable.

The poet presents a limitless gaze through images created in structured forms such as the sonnet, ten-line stanzas, and the haikú, maintaining their individuality savored within the structure and externally. For example, in the section Cuatro décimas originarias, every chain of orígenes místicos narrates with rhymed verses the glimmers of folklore igniting and reviving our Latin American countries. 

González Núñez raises, with great sensibility and poetic compromise, the immigrant's voice in his Quince sonetos citadinos. These sonnets find a formidable space to share encounters and disconnections, feelings of anguish and desolation: Hoy te veo a través de un viejo lente/ — todo tiene una textura difusa —/ Soy como quien mira y se aleja a la vez. 

Ese golpe de luz is an acumen of attention to form, expressed inside and out of the poetic image, presenting various reading ways: with attention to conversational poetry, with attention to form and metric, or invoking each word from the origins of everyday paths. 

Gabriel González Núñez is the author of a set of children’s books, including Me llamo Juana y así me hice poeta (Pinguin Random House Uruguay 2019), and an unusual book called Estampas del Libro de Mormón (self 2018).

Ese golpe de luz is a publication by Flowersong Press. Click to purchase here.
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Reviewed by
Rossy E. Lima
12/3/2020

Rossy Evelin Lima, PhD, is an international award-winning poet. She has been awarded the Gabriela Mistral Award by the National Hispanic Honor Society, the Premio Internazionale di Poesia Altino in Italy, the International Latino Book Award, the Premio Orgullo Fronterizo Mexicano award by the Institute for Mexicans Abroad, the Premio Internazionale La Finestra Eterea in Italy, among others. She is the president and founder of the Latin American Foundation for the Arts, the founder of the International Latin American Poetry Festival (FeIPoL), as well as the founder of Jade Publishing. 

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