Edel Romay was born in San Andres Tuxtla, Veracruz, Mexico. He studied education at the Escuela Normal "Enriquez C. Rebsamen." At the Veracruzana University, he studied architecture and plastic arts along with mathematics and philosophy. In 1966 he established his residence in Berkeley, California in the U.S. where he earned his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley. He received his M.S. from California State University at Hayward and his doctorate from San Francisco State University. Presently, he is retired from his teaching career and has returned to his passion for the plastic arts and literature. A student of mythology and cosmology, he is a very learned man of exceptional imagination. Dr. Romay creates in his works what he calls absurd realism. That's to say the coexistence of the absurd within what we call human reality. As a poet, painter, sculptor, narrator or photographer, his art takes us to a quantum world and an oneiric memory. After having enjoyed a successful career in the area of critical pedagogy, Edel Romay finally can dedicate all his attention to what he has always wanted to do - publish his numerous manuscripts. The present one transformed into a book speaks to us with real fiction of edited memories. Not much different from what Mario Vargas Llosa tells us: Memory is the point of departure of fantasy. Therefore, the short narrative included here exposes us to contemplate yesterday as a dream. Something like what some writers experience within that encounter with absence when they internalize themselves into a sheet of blank paper in the present progressive digital world. Nevertheless, the author continues to use classic pencil and blank paper for his rough drafts. Unquestionably, that "yesterday" that once was "today" is suspended in that labyrinth of memory. After all, this narrative subscribes to the premise that "Reality only exists in language." Because the reality of this work manifests itself if you continue to read it... You see For it offers more than one reading."

Edel Romay has been enriched by his travels and friendships with literary and plastic artists as well as intellectuals in Mexico, Europe, the United States and South America. His oeuvre -literary and plastic- has been influenced by great philosophers, poets and scientists. A Brief Poesy, 1989-2004 invites us to look into the relationship within the brain and the cosmos, the word with being, reality with time. In other words, he challenges us to reflect upon what Martin Heidegger once declared: Language is the dwelling of the being. Moreover, Edel proposes the idea that without an observer, reality does not exist. Similarly, Romay encourages the internal dialog between I and You that reflects upon itself to construct a true I- the symbiosis that exists between reader and author within the same person. You are the other that creates and recreates me when I am read, because without a You there is no I and vice versa. This in turn leads us to ponder in what the poet Octavio Paz asserted: The eyes speak, words look, looks think....

Edel Romay se ha visto enriquecido por sus viajes y asociaciones con artistas e intelectuales en M xico, Europa, los Estados Unidos y Sudam rica (tanto en la literatura como en las artes pl sticas). Y su obra -literaria y pl stica- ha sido influenciada por grandes fil sofos, poetas y cient ficos. Una Po tica Breve, 1989-2004 nos invita a ver la relaci n que guarda el Cerebro con el Cosmos, la Palabra con el Ser, la Realidad con el Tiempo. En pocas palabras, nos hace meditar en lo que alguna vez Martin Heidegger estableciera "El lenguaje es la casa del ser." Adem s, Edel nos propone la idea de que "sin observador, la realidad no existe." Igualmente tambi n, Romay nos conduce al di logo interno del yo con el t que se busca a s mismo para construirse como un yo verdadero. Es decir, la simbiosis que existe entre lector y autor en una misma persona. T, el otro que me crea y recrea cuando me lee; porque sin un t no hay un yo. Y viceversa. Lo cual nos hace reflexionar en lo que el poeta Octavio Paz afirmara "Los ojos hablan, las palabras miran, las miradas piensan... "

Despues de haber gozado una exitosa carrera en el campo de la pedagogia critica, Edel Romay finalmente puede dedicar toda su atencion a algo que el siempre deseo hacer - Publicar sus manuscritos, que son muchos. Y este manuscrito aqui transformado en libro, nos habla de una ficcion verdadera de ciertos recuerdos editados. No muy lejos de lo que Mario Vargas Llosa nos dice: La memoria es el punto de partida de la fantasia." Asi pues, la narrativa breve aqui reunida nos expone a contemplar el ayer como un sueno. Algo asi; como ese encuentro con la ausencia, que algunos escritores experimentan, cuando se adentran al cosmos de una hoja de papel en blanco, en el actual progresivo mundo digital. Sin embargo, el autor aun sigue usando el clasico lapiz y papel en blanco para sus borradores. Indudablemente, ese "ayer" que alguna vez fue "hoy" esta suspendido en los laberintos de la memoria. Despues de todo, esta narrativa se inscribe en la premisa de que "La realidad solo existe en el lenguaje." Porque la realidad de esta obra se manifiesta; si tu, la continuas leyendo... Ves Hay mas de una lectura que te ofrece.