Juanan

Requena

[1983]

 

Juanan Requena was born in an arid village in La Mancha, where he was captivated by the horizons as he built huts among the maize fields.

Following beautiful failures and continuous drifts, he moved to the South Sea, where he learnt hendecasyllables and quejíos selling books and serving coffees. He became a traveller while wiring the tours of rock ‘n’ roll bands and filling up endless diaries. In this way, he roamed nomadically, covered in salt residue and shrouded in doubts, until he persuaded himself that poetry and the gaze could converge in the same incandescence. Today, he still strives to reflect this struggle.