Cuban poet Reiniel Pérez, 23, has won the 2022 Loewe Poetry Prize for his book
Las silabas y el cuerpo
in the XXXV edition of these awards.
The Jury of the XXXV Loewe Foundation International Poetry Prize, chaired by Víctor García de la Concha and made up of Gioconda Belli, Antonio Colinas, Aurora Egido, Margo Glantz, Juan Antonio González Iglesias, Carme Riera, Jaime Siles, Luis Antonio de Villena and Orlando Mondragón, have highlighted that the work is a unitary and rhythmic book, with great expressive ease and a desire for innovation.
In this sense, they have added that it is a book of carnal love, almost obsessive, that delves into the sexual life of words and enjoys the presence of the body's love, as an emotional and eternal theme.
“The syllables and the body is a surprising book due to the unity of its ten long movements, maintained in tone, a type of verse and an admirable temperature of language.
It is a great book of love brilliantly written and expressed with a system close to the verse of Saint-John Perse, more than that of Vicente Aleixandre, and in which a daring will to innovate very well planned and resolved can be seen" he pointed out. James Siles.
To this call, dated with 25,000 euros, 1,976 participants from 38 countries have presented themselves.
48.3 percent comes from Latin America, with Mexico, Argentina and Colombia, in that order, the countries with the highest participation rate.
In Spain, the provinces with the highest number of works presented are Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and Seville.