Ernesto Alcalá
Journey to an Illusory Kingdom
Journey to an Illusory Kingdom draws on surrealism and experimentation. The machinery of language, ruthless in its precision, is counterbalanced by the power of imagination and by a vigorous metaphorical impulse that, once released, opens onto a space of serene depth. In this collection, Ernesto Alcalá constructs a poetic realm shaped by intuition and dream. His work observes human nature with lucid, almost meditative attention and centres on those fundamental qualities that shape our experience in the world. Here, language gestures toward realities it cannot fully contain. The result is a book that treats poetry as a site of discovery, transcendence and freedom. A luminous, unsettling and deeply imaginative journey.
Both earthbound and celestial, Ernesto Alcalá's poems inhabit a distinctive universe of symbols, vivid images and striking juxtapositions that challenge the intellect while resonating with the heart.
Phil Brown
InReview Queensland
Biographical note
The voice of Ernesto Alcalá (Barcelona, 1971) emerges from a profound engagement with imagination and the inner workings of human nature. He is the author of the poetry collections Geometría de lo imposible (2021) and Insinuaciones del agua (2023). His activity as a musician has shaped his identity and has occupied the greater part of his professional live. Alongside his creative work, Alcalá provides psychosocial support in the mental health and wellbeing sector. A naturalised Australian citizen, Ernesto Alcalá has lived in Brisbane since 2011.
Ernesto Alcalá approaches the poetic word as a voice that brings light to darkness, presence to the void, and memory to dreams.
Carlos Aguasaco
Director del Americas Poetry Festival of New York
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Poems
EQUILIBRIST
You who accompany me
raise my cup of cotton
and drink.
I know your words
feed on spines,
mine hurt too:
Gorgons watching us
emotionless
watching us.
I am,
like you,
shade in a desert.
Raise my blade and pierce me.
SINGULARITY EPIPHANY
Violence is a bright star
in the sky of nothingness,
in the centre of every conflict.
And in the uprooting of celestial bodies
the homes of the lonely burn,
the homes of the ancient troubadours
who take the damage point-blank.
The horror is a house of dolls,
a girl atop a horse
searching for a bell amongst the rubble.
The firmament trembles,
maybe behind a Van Gogh painting
—maybe behind the windows of “The Yellow House”.
Maybe in the coffins of the depraved.
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Stopped within the very meaning of life. Filling the poems with questions. A bottle on the sand after a shipwreck, with no survival manual other than love.
FERNANDO VALVERDE
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