Pureza Demolida: Purity Demolished (Bilingual Edition)

Después de un vida entera dedicada a la labor poética, que es de amor, nadie podría arrebatarle a Fernando Operé la verdad absoluta de su compromiso: es auténtico poeta cada día, en cada presencia, en cada iniciativa suya de mejorar el mundo que va hollando. Esta Pureza demolida es también una pureza sublimada, es la vida vivida con deseo de seguir viviendo en la consciencia de saberse exiliado, pero hallado y renovado en la supervivencia del poema. Fernando Operé es poeta porque así cultiva el devenir: demoliendo la conformidad para plantar, de memoria, el dulce huerto del Edén perdido. Fernando Operé es poeta porque lo ha sido de por vida. Quien lo leyó lo sabe. Les invito a que lo sepan.

After a lifetime devoted to the poetic craft, which is one of love, no one could take from Fernando Operé the absolute truth of his commitment: he is a true poet every day, in every presence, in every initiative of his to improve the world he walks through. This Purity Demolished is also a sublimated purity-it is life lived with the desire to go on living, with the awareness of being in exile, yet found and renewed in the survival of the poem. Fernando Operé is a poet because that is how he cultivates becoming: by demolishing conformity in order to plant, from memory, the sweet garden of lost Eden. Fernando Operé is a poet because he has been one all his life. Those who have read him know it. I invite you to know it too. PEDRO LARREA