Rain

«My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery: always buzzing, humming, soaring, roaring, diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?» 

─Virginia Woolf

Rain, the Poetry Book. 
Front Cover Photograph by peruvian artist José Carlos Orrillo /Back Cover Photograph: Self-Portrait by ©Karina Luz Bocanegra

 At the Presentation of Rain, the Poetry Book and Prosternación, the Nouvelle.
poet David Novoa giving extravagant introduction

At the Presentation of Rain, the Poetry Book and Prosternación, the Nouvelle.

Poet Karina reading «Pragmatic reasons to why I write or Art Manifesto.»

At the Presentation of Rain, the Poetry Book and Prosternación, the Nouvelle.

Poet Karina reading «Pragmatic reasons to why I write or Art Manifesto.»

At the Presentation of Rain, the Poetry Book and Prosternación, the Nouvelle.

Peruvian writer Cesar Olivares presenting Rain, the Poetry Book 

and Prosternación, the Nouvelle.

(Left to right: renowed peruvian writer Bethoven Medina,  poet Karina Bocanegra, 

awarded peruvian writer Cesar Olivares and musician Gabriel).

At the Presentation of Rain, the Poetry Book and Prosternación, the Nouvelle.

Trujillo-Perú, 2010

(Left to right: renowed peruvian writer Bethoven Medina,  poet Karina Bocanegra, 

awarded peruvian writer Cesar Olivares and musician Gabriel).

At the Presentation of Rain, the Poetry Book and Prosternación, the Nouvelle.

Trujillo-Perú, 2010

(Left to right: renowed peruvian writer Bethoven Medina,  poet Karina Bocanegra, 

awarded peruvian writer Cesar Olivares).

At the Presentation of Rain, the Poetry Book and Prosternación, the Nouvelle.

Trujillo-Perú, 2010

Poet Karina signing books.

Art Coffee Gallery "Mixturas".
Photo: Luis Cabrera Vigo

Five or six years ago, I was rainig in my bedroom instead of closing my eyes and die with the night; I couldn't stop the water drops from falling all the way to my notebook. I threw fragments of my soul out, with the dawn crashing against my face. After a few hours, I realized I had a book.
I decided to publish the Rain, to make it real and possible for somebody to drown into my waterfalls and, with luck, help the reader find his/own water.
When I look back to those memories, I realize it will never stop raining.

Some verses from the book:

(...) Theartwillspreadaroundtheworldandoureyeswillopentogetherinacloseshaveof wonder

WONDERING

AROUND the bathroom

Shame

Cleanthemind

Stopfate

One makeshisownwind

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Words will not fit in waves of suns

Claps

Wandering world

Poetry is more than shouting a screaming note

(...)

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Special thanks to photographer Victor Hugo Bazan Cabanillas and poet Luis Cabrera Vigo for taking these pictures.
Rain is not currently available. I am planning on publishing a second edition.

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