15 x 21 cm. Encuadernación rústica con solapas, 113 págs. NUEVO. Goat Star Books, 2002. Mendigo Diego is the pseudonym of Spanish poet Manolo Marcos, who is an example of a multidisciplinary and versatile artist: poet, musician and painter. His poems are imbued by the spirit of surrealism, which found fertile ground in Spain and Latin America. The verses of "Popping Corn" are inspired by a range of voices, from that of Peruvian poet César Vallejo to that of the "koans" of Zen Buddhism. For him, the artist is someone who suffers from a mismatch with reality and for that reason "illuminates a new reality on top of the existing one". This volume introduces his poetry for the first time to the English-speaking reader.