Una reseña de libro

Héctor Domínguez Ruvalcaba, Periplo de los lechos / fábula retroviral. México: Ediciones Desliz, 2015, ISBN: 978-607-96219-7-1

Abstract

Periplo de los lechos / fábula retroviral -by the poet, narrator and research professor at the University of Texas at Austin, Héctor Domínguez Ruvalcaba (Hermosillo, Sonora, 1962) - is the second Mexican collection of poems to fully poeticize the relationship between homoeroticism and HIV /AIDS; the first was Poesida (1996), by the Mexican poet and playwright Abigael Bohórquez (Caborca, Sonora, March 12, 1936-Hermosillo, Sonora, November 27, 1995).

Periplo de los lechos / fábula retroviral is a collection of poems divided into three parts, each of which contains thirty-eight, twenty-one and twenty-one short free verse poems, respectively. In the first part, the hermosillense poet sings the delights of homoeroticism; the second is dedicated to the homoerotic experience of HIV / AIDS; and the third to the poetic exorcism of the attractive demons of suicide.

Domínguez Ruvalcaba's poems freely and openly address the desiring force of homoeroticism in sexually diverse and dissident men. Furthermore, they reflect the physical and subjective experiences of living with HIV and, in that sense, the suffering implicit in such experiences of seropositivity. Thus, homoeroticism, living with HIV and suffering are three themes that give rise to the exhilarating and distressing, at the same time, the artistic expression of the author and, in his poems, they gain literary and social legitimacy as parts of the diversity of the human condition.