/more inscriptions on the third page of 'the underdogs'.
/defining people with three words.
  
"the only possible education for Art is infection. to Lucía, barbaric underdog."

#excerpts

#1996

/more inscriptions on the third page of 'the underdogs'.
/I've already lost count of how many books I've given away. 
/defining people with three words.
  
"to Adela, able to live in the world for years and never become the world"

#excerpts

#1994

/letter to Lawrence Ferlinguetti (sent with "the underdogs").
/personal message written in the 3rd page of the book censored.
  
"dear Lawrence,
  there is something heroic about writing; we give the text the possibility of telling the truth! some day we’ll pay for so much happiness. writing is an obsessive-compulsive thing. like hunger, which must be sated, the writing of one more book does not bring an end to the longing. hence, it is the recurrent experience what matters. writing is dreams deferred, it feels like starving.
  “LONELY OLD COURAGE-TEACHER”, sending you my book is a simple way to say thank you. it has never been published, and I don’t care if it ever is. just finishing it feels like the summit, or like my youth. we writers, we always rehearse the end of the world. this is it. 
best,
L."

#letters
#the_underdogs

#1989

/foreword, "THE UNDERDOGS" (...the possibility of telling the truth!...)
/even my therapist once told me to shut the fuck up.
 
#the_underdogs

#1942

/another beauty.
 
#books

#1940

/last edits before receiving the final printed version.
/last paragraph, FINALE "THE UNDERDOGS" (...a finale for the great symphony of this book...).
 
#the_underdogs

#1938

/some random pages with final edits while waiting for the first printed version of the book.
/a definition.
 
#the_underdogs

#1937

/EPILOGUE (excerpt), written five years later.
 
#the_underdogs

#1936

/back cover, 412pp.
 
#the_underdogs

#1923

/from my own biased perspective, the last sentence is one of the best things I've ever written, pure understood truth, love makes you write amazing things indeed. 
/beautiful & prophetic.
/to Art & Love & C.

#excerpts

#the_underdogs

#1533

/the underdogs (392pp, three volumes in one), l'origine du monde.

we are entangled
as in ‘quantum entanglement’
two particles that can’t be described independently
like heroin and addiction
like ginsberg and poetry
like the words ‘everything’ and ‘you’.  
― Luis Pareras, The Underdogs.

#books

#1290

/epilogues distorted, revisited, reimagined. 
/pray for my martyrdom in the jihad.

#excerpts

#856

/a sneak peek of the_underdogs
/first pages,
part I (entanglement),
part II (the voracity of loss), 
part III (periphery). 
/pp387, wondrous story, sending.

#excerpts

#the_underdogs

#844

 

p
/part II (the voracity of loss), a single chapter non-stop, 99pp.
 

p
/part III (periphery),
 

t
/the end (. . .)(censored).

 

/the underdogs (389 pp.), two handmade covers w/real polaroids.
/three volumes in one, special edition.
/finished text, won't touch anything.

part I. entanglement
part II. the voracity of loss
part III. periphery.

(this book is us.)

#the underdogs

#755-756

/these three words ‘Pablo is dead’, with their overwhelming meaning, with their great meaning, become heavy as whole planets, eclipsing suns, become atillas and their armies. a man has died and sadly I don’t know who he is, while whole cities tumble down, pride vanishes, green pastures become deserts of sand, and I howl on his grave like a dog.

(hospital. room 728. empty bed. watch still on the bedtable)

(from the_underdogs_v_III)

#polaroids

#750-752

/the underdogs vol_III, promotional art for the book. 
/selfportrait in anguish.
/todo ha terminado, pero tú no me vas a olvidar en la puta vida. 
/maybe it is not a book, but a giant poem.

#the_underdogs_vol_iii

#747-748

 

/once evil is chosen.
/500 days, a bit more.
/opening opening 
/C.

#excerpts

#715

.

/notes from the_underdogs_vol_III.
/the temptation of meaning.
/mutilated futures.
/i don't suffer for my mistakes.
/in moments of lucidity i still  remember.

#the_underdogs

#686