WRITING BEYOND ACADEMIA
A selection of Michel Kabalan’s literary projects, editorial work, journalistic contributions, and poetry published under the pseudonym Miguel Abalen.
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POETRY
Vida de prateleira: Vida de aparador (eds. Miguel Abalen, José Higuera)
Publication: Chermióia Editores Madrid-Porto, 2024, poetry, Vida de prateleira: Vida de aparador Amazon.com: Books
Eramos três no boteco portuense a ler o mail do fechamento com cafés e bolinhos de feijão. Depois da leitura incrédula, tudo parou: o tempo dos relógios parou e o silencio gradualmente consumiu a poeira das prateleiras vazias das lojas. Foi assim que a quarentena do COVID caio sobre nós como o mais espesso nevoeiro. Este livro percorre em muitas línguas, regiões, lares e cantos, o ecossistema gerado pela vida detida da pandemia com as suas obsessões, amores, medos e incertezas. Cheios como todos duma excitação programada para o apocalipse, ninguém deixo de exprimir uma abastança pessoal e o gosto esquisito da falsidade que se respirava nas nossas prateleiras fechadas.
Wild Wild Berlin (Miguel Abalen)
Publication: epubli, 2015, poetry, Wild Wild Berlin von Miguel Abalen - Buch - epubli
I here present unto you, Berlin, my undoubted queen in 30 moods, 30 texts and 30 poems.
"Call me Ishmael. Long ago, I left my warm dwellings and went to explore the watery surfaces of the world. Berlin prospers among lakes and I see myself in every robust vibration of the holy sea. It reminds you of the sleepy smoke that overlaps your thirst in the gray city. Yet all is vain and scores and scores of bodies are reverberations of broken light in an ice palace."
Drops of Brevity (Miguel Abalen)
Publication: epubli, 2015, poetry, Drops of Brevity von Miguel Abalen - Buch - epubli
Drops of Brevity or how to build a world in condensed prose.
"Blue Fountain Pen It looks as if all colored inspirations came down from a blue fountain pen crucified battered on the brink of solitude and yet prosperous under the abrupt lines of liquid ink" "Veneer A thin veneer for a dwindling sky a high foothold a controlled performance for the light halo that looks Berlin in the eye one early morning in September."