Rafael (Rafah) Acevedo will present his new poetry book Odio [Hate] at a book launch tonight, November 20, 2009, at 7:30pm at Café Seda in Old San Juan. The activity is sponsored by Letra y Píxel.
Professor of literature, poet, journalist, playwright, and self-proclaimed “functional misanthrope and dysfunctional musician,” Acevedo (Santurce, Puerto Rico; 1960) is also author of Contracanto (1982), Retorno del ojo pródigo (1986), Libro de islas (1989), Instrumentario (1996), Cannibalia (2005), Moneda de sal (2006), and Sexo y cura/Carnada de cangrejo (2008). His first novel Exquisito cadáver (2001) received an honorable mention by the prestigious Casa de las Americas Awards in 2001. He has written theater pieces such as Cualquier guerra, cualquier amor (1990), Tres pájaros en una rama (1990), and Crónica natural (1991), and Aló quién llama (1994).
See Acevedo’s site at http://www.cerealkeyller.blogspot.com/
[Many thanks to Teo Freytes for bringing this item to our attention.]
