Xe M. Sánchez

DENDE FAI TIEMPU Dende fai un tiempu fálase abondu d’anuncies falses. Nun son un inventu modernu. De xemes en cuandu, cuandu lleo dellos llibros d’hestoria, cuéstame enforma atopar la llende pente la hestoria y la propaganda. BALES El llinguax ye’l preséu col que los poetes semen la so collecha d’ausencies, d’esperances, de tiempu echáu a beloxe. El llinguax ye una pantasma pigazando que caltién la sabencia del pasáu y ye la llave’l futuru. El llinguax ye un cañón poderosu que nun emplega pólvora nin bales. Poro les mios pallabres enxamás son inocentes.

FOR SOME TIME NOW For some time now, there is much talk about fake news. They are not a modern invention. Sometimes, when I read history books, I find it extremely difficult to find the border between history and propaganda. BULLETS Language is the tool with which poets sow their crop of absences, of hopes, of wasted time. Language is a sleeping specter who preserves the wisdom of the past, is the key to the future. Language is a powerful cannon which uses neither gunpowder nor bullets. That’s why my words are never innocent. [translated from the Asturian by the author]

Xe M. Sánchez was born in 1970 in Grau (Asturies, Spain). He received his Ph.D degree in History from the University of Oviedo in 2016. He is anthropologist, and has also studied Tourism and three masters (History / Protocol / Philately and Numismatic). He has published in Asturian language Escorzobeyos (2002), Les fueyes tresmanaes d’Enol Xivares (2003), Toponimia de la parroquia de Sobrefoz, Ponga (2006), Llue, esi mundu paralelu (2007), Les Erbíes del Diañu (E-book: 2013, Paperback: 2015), Cróniques de la Gandaya (E-book, 2013), El Cuadernu Prietu (2015), and several publications in journals and reviews in Asturies, USA, Portugal, France, Sweden, Scotland, Australia, South Africa, India, Italy, England and Canada.
 
 
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