Edgar Mena's poetry arises from the need to express the world he inhabits. For this reason, Honey for the Herds constitutes, first and foremost, a poetics of desire that emerges from the feminine figure. This figure responds to classical canons that associate the feminine with the water of fertility, with the maternal water that contains everything, with erotic water. The poetic self's perception of desire is that it is the driving force that drives life forward. For Edgar Mena, life and poetry intermingle, entwining each other, always in a "measuredly vital" manner, always from a place of celebration and joy. In this second instance, the intimate becomes universal and gives rise to love. Passionate love, filial love, translated into childhood memories, in moments where affections are expressed as if in a continuous present, without nostalgia or sadness, because time past endures. Hon...read more
