On Monday evening, May 12, Andrés González Francés presented his new book “Veinte poemas en llamas” (Twenty poems in flames), poetry that ignites the memory of an island.
The event, organized by the City Council of Puerto del Rosario, through the Department of Culture, took place in the Municipal Library, as a tribute to the life and literary career of the Majorero author.
The mayor of Puerto del Rosario, David de Vera, stressed that “it is an honor for Puerto del Rosario to host the presentation of this work that reflects the lucidity and commitment of an author who has managed to transform the word into living heritage of our island. Andrés González Francés represents a generation that made poetry a form of resistance, memory and beauty”.
For his part, the Councillor for Culture, Juan Manuel Verdugo, stressed that “the figure of Andrés González Francés deserves all the institutional and citizen recognition for a life of dedication to thought, literature and public service. His work not only enriches the island’s culture, but leaves a deep mark on the collective soul of Fuerteventura.
In “Veinte poemas en llamas”, González Francés reaches full poetic maturity. The work gathers twenty compositions that, as Juan Jiménez, in charge of the prologue of the work, points out, “enclose a well-conceptualized message in twenty flashes that gather part of his experience, part of his feelings”.
For González Francés, “poetry is the most human feeling that exists”, as he expresses in the poem “A flapping of free wings”, included in his new book: “It is desolation and hope, aroma of words, sultana of letters. Know it all, she is a flower that is sprouting in verse!
The poet majorero received a plaque of appreciation and recognition of his work from the hands of the mayor, David de Vera, and the Councillor for Culture, Juan Manuel Verdugo.
