Dionisio Cañas

DIONISIO CAÑAS: was born in Tomelloso (Ciudad Real) in 1949. He lived in France for nine years and resided in New York from the end of 1972 until 2005, now he lives in La Mancha. He was a professor at Yale University and professor at the City University of New York. A poet-artist and literary and art critic, his most notable books of poetry are: The End of Happy Races (1981), The Great Criminal (1997), Heart of a Dog (2002), In Case of Fire (2005), Videopoems 2002-2006 (book-dvd, 2007), And He Began Not to Speak (2008), Place. Antología y nuevos poemas (2010), Los libros suicidas. Arabian horizon (2015). The night of Europe (2017). He has also published several books of essays: Poesía y percepción (1984), Tomelloso en la frontera del miedo (1991), El poeta y la ciudad (1994), Memorias de un mirón: voyeurismo y sociedad (2002) and Posibilidades de la poesía (2008), Un viaje hacia El País Invisible: sufismo, erotismo y la búsqueda del Yo (2018).