Amor a distancia

The vision begins with a river. From this river, you can see a village, marine life, and ancestral rituals. It is here that you recognize origins, and a poison beginning to spread through paradise. Suddenly, a premonition: a wounded animal. The certainty of war cries. What you take with you is what you become, each movement a gamble, a lottery of life that transforms you until this moment, when uncertainty becomes an ally. Lotería: Nocturnal Sweepstakes is a collection of deeply evocative coming-of-age poems that take the reader on a voyage through the intimate experiences of displacement....

La recuperacion de composiciones tradicionales (cantigas, romances, etc.) hace que la poesia de Gil Vicente ofrezca una prodigiosa variedad de formas. Esta edicion reune un gran numero de poemas, adoptando un criterio cronologico que permite establecer relaciones de dependencia entre los textos.

All the poems in this work are those that the author has published between 1995 and 2001. Some poems that were later made into songs appear in both versions. As in the previous Inventario books, this one starts with the most recent poems and concludes with the oldest, perhaps with the hopes that the reader, by having access to this work through the newest and nearest door, will soon be tempted to open other doors, as if doing an inventory.

Ernesto Lumbreras escribe en la presentación de Paso de ciervo: "Desde su andamiaje formal, el verso libre y el poema en prosa, la poesía de Jorge Esquinca se presenta como uno de los ejercicios plásticos más depurados y sugestivos de la poesía mexicana reciente."