Minister Ñáñez presented his collection of poems Second Voices at the GAN

Published at: 10/11/2025 11:59 AM

Last Sunday, November 9th, the Minister of Popular Power for Communication and Information, Freddy Ñáñez, presented his collection of poems Second Voices, in the spaces of the National Art Gallery (GAN), as part of the XVI Caracas Book Fair.

“Second voices is an allegory with the choral musical technique, in which the lead voice is effectively accompanied by independent voices that bring harmony to the main voice,” said Ñáñez.

He also stressed that “the voice has always seemed to me one of the great mysteries of the human condition”, noting that he considered it a “philosophical obsession” that he acquired.

He continued the description of his work, stating: “these voices are full of poems that are not only repeated in their title as if it were a choir, but also in each of those voices there are concepts, affections, ways of telling exactly the same thing”.

Minister Ñáñez also raised the need “to narrate, to tell in a pristine way what we are listening to”; as well as an effort to reconcile rational and philosophical thinking with “the irrational nature of poetry”.

For his part, the writer Rodolfo Quintero-Noguera, who introduced the literary work, stressed that “there are poets such as Freddy who are already looking from the same cover to give us some clue, some clarity of where things are going. (...) Freddy referred to a second voice that is the one that we could all recognize as the one who sings”.

In addition, he highlighted the creative process of the work, “it's about making explicit the spiritual concerns that the world observes through the eye of a Bengal tiger”

“In Second Voices, passive silence is not contrary to the voice, but rather it is a voice itself,” he said, noting that the minister's verses were gradually reduced, to “achieve an unusual fire in the synthesis,” he said.

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