Más allá, más acá

At ninety-seven, José Corredor-Matheos presents us with a book that is the joyful culmination of his extraordinary poetic career. Bare language for essential wisdom, rhetorical stripping away for a few modest truths, simplicity and refinement for the existential emotion of one who, from the vantage point of age, shuns any egotism or transcendence, and, immersed in the Zen tradition, dissolves his identity into nature. With its paradoxes and contradictions, the poem becomes an exploration and a path to knowledge. Four years after *Al borde*, this *Más allá, más acá* crowns, even more so, the lessons of an already indispensable poet.