There is in every poem by Jose Emilio Pacheco a clear willingness to illuminate the language and the world through a moral reflection on our condition: their texts get lift-amid the noise and silence senseless crystalline mechanisms through which we can see, feel and think the surrounding reality. Matter, intelligence and sensitivity appear to us as well, in this exemplary balanced writing, in all its dimensions: with tragedy and tear, ridicule and biting irony and cynicism of power; next to the violence, the glow of beauty in its fragility feeds his strength and his presence and brings us perhaps to something like salvation. Each issue contains its countertheme and rubbing of both the spark of poetic intuition to unite them, separate them, throw them beyond their changing identities arises; words that reflected and expressed in The Silence of the moon are a lesson in transparency.
