Claudio RodrÃguez Fer is a Galician writer. He is the author of numerous literary works in the Galician language and of works of modern literary studies in Spanish. He was a Visiting Professor at the City University of New York, at the University of Southern Brittany and at the Université Haute Bretagne at Rennes, where he was awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa. He is Director of the Chair José Ãngel Valente of Poetry and Aesthetic at Universidade of Santiago de Compostela, where he also directs the Moenia magazine. With Carmen Blanco, he coordinates the intercultural and libertarian magazine Unión Libre. Cadernos de vida e culturas. He has published, spoken, and read his work in numerous parts of Europe, America and Africa.
Claudio RodrÃguez Fer published his collected poems in Amores e clamores ['Love and Cries'; Ediciós do Castro, 2011] and his narrative in Contos e descontos ['Stories and Not'; Toxosoutos, 2011].
He grouped his poetry in thematic cycles: the erotic, in Vulva, which includes Poemas de amor sen morte ['Poems of Love Without Death'; 1979], Tigres de ternura ['Tender Tigers', 1981], Historia da lúa ['Moon Story', 1984], A boca violeta ['Violet Mouth', 1987] and Cebra ['Zebra', 1988]; film, in Cinepoemas ['Filmpoems', 1983]; historical themes, in the Memory Trilogy, comprising Lugo Blues [1987], A loita continúa ['The Struggle Continues', 2004], and Ãmote vermella ['I Love You Red', 2009]; and the nomadic poems, which to date include Extrema Europa [1996], A unha muller desconocida ['To an Unknown Woman', 1997], Viaxes a ti ['Trips to You', 2006] and Unha tempada no paraÃso ['A Stay in Paradise', 2010], this last volume with an in-depth commentary by Olga Novo.
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