Homenaje al camino / Tribute to the Road - Tapa blanda

" His voice is wise and philosophical. It has an inimitable cadence, a good sense of uncommon depth and profound dormant, because there is fire in the blue of Ambroggio, a telluric eroticism in his lyrical record. " Oscar Hijuelos"

His voice is wise and philosophical. It has an inimitable cadence, a good sense of uncommon depth and profound dormant, because there is fire in the blue of Ambroggio, a telluric eroticism in his lyrical record. Oscar Hijuelos"

In this book Tribute to the Road the essential quality of Luis Alberto Ambroggio’s poetry is immediacy: the vividness of images that feel unmediated, though we know they are, profoundly, the products of art. Here is a philosophical mind that insists always on the unfathomable  primacy of encounter, the empirical.Ambroggio’s compression of imagery is neither algebraic on one side, nor mystical on the other. The poetic energy is more generative than a code of equivalents, and more distinct than a frenzy taken on faith. It is as though the poet thinks in images, rather than constructing them. In the ancient conception of metaphor, a flash of recognition.                                                                                     Robert Pinsky U.S. Poet Laureate En este poemario Homenaje al camino la calidad esencial de la poesía de Luis Alberto Ambroggio es su inmediatez: imágenes vivas que se sienten sin mediación, aunque sabemos que son, desde lo más profundo, productos de arte. Se trata aquí de una mente filosófica que insiste siempre sobre la inmensa primacía del encuentro, lo empírico. Por un lado, la compresión de las imágenes de Ambroggio no es algebraica, ni por otro, mística.  La energía poética genera más de un código de equivalentes, y es más perceptible que un frenesí que se torna un dogma de fe.  Es como si el poeta pensase en imágenes, en vez de construirlas.  En la antigua concepción de la metáfora, es una sensación súbita de reconocimiento.                                                                    Robert Pinsky Poeta Laureado de los Estados Unidos