The rooster, this animal that seems to be “completely aware of the stars and movements in the sky, because it sings when the sun rises to wake up to the universe and go to sleep when it happens”, is the companion of the young traveler who explores the planet Mars and shares its results.
Explorer between galaxies, the protagonist of the book Gallo, the planet explodes (FCE/ FLM), from Lázaro Izael, and Israel, shows that the floor of Mars is cold, that there are fruit trees hanging and that their fruits are birds. The animals that float, flowers, roosters and colored chicks live on the red planet.
This is the journey that Iza calls for readers, through this title that won the American Spanish Poetry Award for Children 2023, which is reflected in existence, nothing and the universe through fun verses of a simple language.
The idea was born from a press note. I read that NASA has a program called Rover Curiosphere, which sent some robots to Mars to take pictures. “I thought these robots resemble the poet, right??
I am from Coahuila and there is a type of Mars, with those mountains, with that red ground. Then the rooster came. The rooster is very close to my father, because it raises the birds. This entire universe slowly shows. “
The Bachelor of Messages of Spanish origin from the independent Nuwevo Leon University who chose the rooster for this fictional journey, because it is “a very local animal and outside the big cities, is very present.
Something surprised me when I came to live in Mexico City is that people thought that all the chicks were yellow. I think they have this picture on TV. No, there are red black chicken. This shows us that the life of the city is greater, and that there are many places that we do not talk about, and many pictures that we do not see. “
He says he used to inhabit animal poems because “when we are children, they are essential in our lives. With them we test many feelings. It is our first approach to death or cruelty, for example. They are great comrades in childhood.”
Those who studied a diploma in the script at the Film Training Center admitted that he was driven by the climatic crisis. “We are in a disturbing moment to take care of our planet, with an increase in temperature. We made the regret realize our weakness in the Earth.
that it a trip Mars invites us to think about how to take care of the world in which we live, how we realize its beauty and the way we are associated with other types, we are interconnected. “Care is vital, because it is not allowed to live.”
The Flm Fellow of the Mexican Messages Foundation (FLM) tells that he spoke a lot with children and young readers. “We are talking about how the book is also a spacecraft, because it takes us to other worlds, to know other experiences, other sounds, noise or other sounds. It can be said that I give life to Mars with imagination.”
The author starts from the hypothesis that poetry, like science, is a way to know. “We can all become these explorers between the planets and be there with a good open look to discover them, to ask ourselves, to change the way of thinking. We learned books to give other meanings to things.”
As for the language, he says he was looking for a tone that does not offer hierarchical serials. “I did not use classic resources for what a poem should be for children. I have searched for strategies that can do the closest poems. It is made in a free verse. For example, I discovered the poetic ability of questions.”
Izael concludes that “words are transformative and give another experience in life.”
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