[Pedro Poitevin]

My book of palindromes "Eco da eco de doce a doce" has been published by Ediciones La Galera, in México. (I still don't have my own copies, but I just saw the pictures.)

A wonderful review that does double duty by also paying homage to the master palindromist Darío Lancini, who passed away last year, has just appeared in Letras Libres. The review includes a palindromic sonnet dedicated to Lancini. I wrote it three days after he passed away. (The review hilariously says I was born in 1937: it should say 1973.)

A bit of my work has appeared also in the anthology Sorberé Cerebros: Antología Palindrómica de la Lengua Española.

[Tim Murphy]

Warm congratulations, Pedro! I was born in '51, but some mornings like today I FEEL like I was born in '37.

[Maryann Corbett]

A book is a Big Deal in any language. Congratulations, Pedro. I wish my Spanish were better, so I could read the review with a bit less struggle.

[Ed Shacklee]

Cogratulations, Pedro. That is welcome news. Like many people, I love palindromes. I don't know Spanish, but I may get the book anyway, for friends who do.

Ed

[Steve Mangan]

Congratulations Pedro : Couldn't read it in the original but I think the automatic google translation was sufficient for me to get the drift.

[Nicholas F.]

Terrific. Glad to hear this, Pedro.

[Janice D. Soderling]

Oh, cordial enhorabuena por this one! Wow!

[Roger Slater]

Wow, Pedro, that's fabulous, "un logro mayor" as the reviewer says. The poems of yours that are quoted in the review are incredibly impressive. I don't know how you even begin to write such things. Have you ever done palindromes in English?

I know this is one book of Spanish poems that I will never be able to translate -- nor will anyone else.

[Pedro Poitevin]

Thank you everyone. I'm still in shock myself.

Tim: Today I feel like a teenager, to tell you the truth, but yesterday I did feel like I had been born in 1937, after shoveling all that snow.

Maryann: Thank you for trying to read the review. I never thought it possible my name would appear one day on the pages of Letras Libres. (I am in awe of the reviewer. He's a poet whom Octavio Paz praised as fantastic.)

Ed: Thank you. I don't think one can buy it yet. I'll be in touch with you by DM. (Maybe I can get you a free copy.)

Steve: Thanks for reading it. I tried the automatic google translation and must say it doesn't do as bad a job as I thought it might. Though it does do a horrible job with the palindromes. A cardinal rule of palindromes: they should be easier to read once translated!

Nicholas: Thank you!

Janice: Muchas gracias.

Roger: I have written a very few palindromes in English, but it is so much harder to make good palindromes in English! I'll send you a sonnet that explains how I write palindromes soon.

[Duncan Gillies MacLaurin]

Congrats, Pedro! I'm a fan of palindromes. I've written a few but no poems as such. My wife was born in 1961.

Duncan