JULIÁN ESTEBAN
TORRES LÓPEZ
ARTIST • POLYMATH
Reclaiming the revolutionary power of culture, storytelling, and creative expression
“A true artist!”
“Julián is the kind of person a creator needs to be in this modern era.”
“Daring and risky, [Julián Esteban Torres López’s] challenge[s] readers to think beyond the norms of language and cultural history, as each is broken down and reinvented. Think of Derrida working toward a written Picasso.”
“As you’ll be able to tell when you listen to him speak, this is truly a person of all kinds of talent, and a brain to match this talent. And it is mind-blowing. Truly genius!”
“[Julián’s] work pushes the bar between a fleeting narrative to a concise generational lesson, a dance between couples, a truth-discovery, something true revealed inside glimpses of still-life.”
“I was stunned by the infusion of history and lineage, joy and disappointment in this lyric collection. Torres López bends quotidian moments through a prism, slowing time in a way that celebrates the wonder of wakeful living.”
“Reading Julian Esteban Torres López is like reading the writings of Russian poet and avant-gardist Daniil Kharms or one of the many heteronyms of Fernando Pessoa. But the poems’ minimalism reminds one of Zen koans: absurd, irrelevant, contradictory, imaginative, fun and beautiful.”
“Julián Esteban Torres López has given us a small masterpiece of tiny ideas writ large with his collection, Ninety-Two Surgically Enhanced Mannequins. Rhythmic and concise, each line is a surprise and a truth.”