A Brief Poesy, 1989-2004
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Edel Romay has been enriched by his travels and friendships with literary and plastic artists as well as intellectuals in Mexico, Europe, the United States and South America. His oeuvre —literary and plastic— has been influenced by great philosophers, poets and scientists. A Brief Poesy, 1989-2004 invites us to look into the relationship within the brain and the cosmos, the word with being, reality with time. In other words, he challenges us to reflect upon what Martin Heidegger once declared: «Language is the dwelling of the being». Moreover, Edel proposes the idea that «without an observer, reality does not exist». Similarly, Romay encourages the internal dialog between I and You that reflects upon itself to construct a true I— the symbiosis that exists between reader and author within the same person. You are the other that creates and recreates me when I am read, because without a You there is no I and vice versa. This in turn leads us to ponder in what the poet Octavio Paz asserted: «The eyes speak, words look, looks think…».
About the Author
Edel Romay was born in San Andrés Tuxtla, Veracruz, México. He studied education at the Escuela Normal “Enríquez C. Rebsamen.” At the Veracruzana University, he studied architecture and plastic arts along with mathematics and philosophy. In 1966, he established his residence in Berkeley, California, where he earned his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley. He received his M.S. from California State University East Bay Hayward and his doctorate from the University of San Francisco. Presently, he is retired from his teaching career and has returned to his passion for the plastic arts and literature. A student of mythology and cosmology, he is a very learned man of exceptional imagination. Dr. Romay creates in his works what he calls absurd realism. That’s to say, the coexistence of the absurd within what we call human reality. As a poet, painter, sculptor, narrator and photographer, his art takes us to a quantum world and an oneiric memory.