In this bilingual collection of concise poems, Washington DC-based poet David Alberto Fernández offers a reader a journey into the pandemic; into the redemptive power of nature; and the paradoxes of political conditions and the human heart.

(En esta colección bilingue  de poemas concisos, el poeta David Alberto Fernández, radicado en Washington DC ofrece al lector un viaje a la pandemia; al poder redentor de la naturaleza; y a las paradojas de las condiciones políticas y el corazón humano.)

David Alberto Fernández is a poet who lives in Takoma Park, Maryland. His bilingual collection of poems, Mundo se consumo / World consumes itself (Beltway Editions, 2025), is already attracting positive popular and critical attention. A lover of words, ideas, and books, David was born in Miami, Florida, in 1972 to Cuban parents, studied philosophy at Florida International University, and earned his library science degree from the Catholic University of America. He is the author of the novel Alexstasia (1997) and has co-translated and co-edited two nonfiction works in English: Anarchism in Cuba (2001) and Proof of Contact (2004). He published his first chapbook of poems, Flowers beyond here (2020), at the height of the pandemic. He is currently the Associate Editor of Beltway Poetry Quarterly and is also the co-founder and co-curator of the Beltway Café, a seasonal poetry series and literary salon meeting at the MLK Library in the heart of Washington, D.C., since 2023. For the past two decades, he has also proudly worked as a librarian at the largest library in the world.

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