Flesh vs. Flesh

Meat vs. Meat is a poetic work that invites the reader on an introspective journey through words, exploring the fundamental tensions of human existence: love and heartbreak, life and death, identity and alienation, the ancestral and the modern, freedom and social control.

The book comprises over thirty poems that move between free verse and poetic prose, with language that oscillates between lyrical and forceful, intimate and universal. From the opening poem, "Darwin," the author establishes a tone of criticism of human violence and selfishness, yet also a hope embodied in the survival of love as a "choice of the few." Poems such as "Dead Man" and "Meat vs. Meat" explore the duality of being, the struggle between materiality and spirit, between systemic oppression and inner resistance. "Sasha Obese Afro-American Princess" offers a sharp critique of racism, imposed beauty standards, and globalization, while "Karim" reflects on the exile of wild love in the modern metropolis. "I," "Misunderstood," and "Heartbeat" delve into the corporal and spiritual condition of the contemporary subject, fragmented between what they feel and what they are allowed to express.

The book also includes texts that engage with art and culture ("Sasha..."), philosophy ("Illusory," "Faith"), and nature ("Rain Prelude"), creating a rich and suggestive intertextual fabric. The work culminates with a reflection on time as an unstoppable record of births and deaths, inviting the reader not to remain indifferent to the "riddle of the tick-tock."

Meat vs. Meat is recommended reading for lovers of contemporary Latin American poetry, for those seeking a poetic voice unafraid to confront the contradictions of today's world, and for anyone wishing to immerse themselves in a lyrical universe where the word is, above all, an act of resistance and self-discovery.