In Search of Bolívar .
William Ospina .
Padua, Tolima, 1954, Colombian poet, essayist and translator , National Poetry Prize Colcultura, 1992, has published among other books "those strange fugitives from the west", "a haunted algebra" and "with whom Virginia speaks walking towards the water" .
IN SEARCH OF BOLÍVAR.
It was enough for him to die so that all hatreds would become veneration, all slander in prayers, all his deeds in legend. Dead, he was no longer a man but a symbol. Latin America hastened to turn that fiery flesh into marble, and since then there was no place that was not centered by its image, civil and thoughtful, or by its equestrian effigy, high above the Andes. Finally, in the marble, what in the flesh always seemed about to occur was resolved: that man and the horse merged into one thing. That existence, brief as a meteor.