The poet and essayist José Sarria presents the poetry book 'Tiempo de espera' and the anthology 'Elogio del tiempo' at Casa de las Tejerinas.

The literary presentations will take place next Friday, October 24, at 6:00 p.m., with free access until full capacity is reached. The event will be presented by Professor Cristóbal Borrero.

The City Council of Estepona informs that next Friday, October 24, at 18:00 hours, will take place in the Alfonso Gil Alfonso Hall of the Casa de Las Tejerinas, the presentation of the poetry book 'Tiempo de espera' and the poetic anthology 'Elogio del tiempo', by the Malaga writer José Sarria.

The event will be presented by Professor Cristobal Borrero, and access to the room will be free, until full capacity is reached.

José Sarria Cuevas (Málaga, 1960), is a writer, essayist, literary critic and member of three Spanish Royal Academies: Royal Academy of Sciences, Fine Arts and Noble Arts of Córdoba, Royal Academy of Sciences, Fine Arts and Noble Arts "Luis Vélez de Guevara" of Écija (Seville) and Royal Academy of Noble Arts of Antequera (Málaga). He holds a degree in Economics and Business Administration and a Master's Degree in Business Administration (M.B.A.). He is considered one of the most outstanding national specialists in the study of Spanish-Maghrebi Literature.

He has published thirty-four books of poetry, narrative and essays. His work has been translated into Italian, French, Arabic, English, Sephardic, Romanian and Russian. His poetry is included in more than fifty national and international poetry anthologies and his poems have been published in specialized magazines in Spain, Mexico, Italy, Argentina, Israel, Romania, Portugal, England, Belgium, Lebanon, Qatar, Arabia, Chile, Peru and Tunisia.

'Tiempo de Espera', Valparaíso Ediciones (Granada, 2022, first edition and 2023, second edition), is a collection of poems that proposes a deep and abyssal reflection on three essential personal elements: vulnerability, transience and identity. Written during the hardest months of the covid pandemic, the text is constituted from an intense existential meditation about our ephemeral history, our temporariness and interimness, with the imperious need to talk with the reader about what we could only learn in that "waiting time", when life stopped us all of a sudden; But also made, also, in a personal time in which abandoned adolescence and youth and escaping maturity, the poet reflects from a vital terrace in which he is installed waiting for an end that is sensed, for the first time, closer.

But this is not a sad or caliginous reflection; on the contrary, this collection of poems is a hyaline, joyful and happy song that rises joyfully for all that has been experienced. An exhortation to take advantage of the present in the face of the constancy of the fleetingness of time, as John Lennon sang: "life is that thing that happens while you are busy making other plans".

"Elogio del tiempo" (Antología poética 1996-2021), is an anthology that includes the period of José Sarria's poetic creation of the last twenty-five years and that has been translated into English by Gordon McNeer, professor at the prestigious universities of Florida, Princetown or Georgia, being one of the most outstanding contemporary American translators.

The lyrical delivery gathers those poems that transit, meditate and become aware of the existence of others, of those who are different. Hence the initial dedication: "To the others who opened my eyes to what is now visible".