SPANISH SKETCHBOOK — ESPAÑA EN DIBUJOS

Ediciones En Huida, 2012

In España en dibujos-Spanish Sketchbook, there is a breath of the frontier that nurtures the two spheres of this bilingual collection . The Iberian peninsula becomes an open gallery from which the transcendent I of the author threshes the complexity of his own personality and thought. Through a series of annotations  on the natural, Bauer outlines sensations and experiences in which man and landscape meld. But this voice does not come from a distant, folklorist, picturesque or superficial position. In these poems, the poet filters the fresh and beating life of the encounter with the inhabitants of a specific place. This is done with the obvious objective of understanding and recognizing, but also with the incorruptible wish to deepen and consider. Even though he uses Spanish place names, his vision is one of universal character and commitment; he is well aware that descriptions are intimate states in a transitory period through any terrain, independent of the name it might possess.