FASMA | Presentation of the poetry book "Dry Leaves", by composer and singer Daniel Gutiérrez

Book presentation ***Hojas secas*** by the renowned singer, songwriter, and poet **Daniel Gutiérrez**.

We invite you to enjoy a conversation about poetry, writing, and music. **Camila Sánchez** and **Armida Zepeda** will interview Daniel Gutiérrez to share with the audience the adventure of writing Poems that turn into Songs and Songs that become Poetry. It will be a casual, interesting chat—surely fun—and maybe with a couple of songs carried along by the wind.

***"Hojas secas" is a collection of memories, deliriums, confessions, wounds... Pages scattered by the wind: some burn with desire, others bleed with rage, or dissolve into dreamlike images. Here there is love and heartbreak, body and absence, dreams and nightmares, cities and abysses.

I wrote these poems in the early morning and in insomnia, in airports and empty rooms, in the tenderness of love and in the fever of disillusionment. I didn’t arrange them with tweezers—I let them fall. Just as they came out. Raw, sweet, broken.

The texts were taken from the notebooks that have accompanied me for thirty years; they are the B-sides of songs, the flow of ideas trying to land the lyrics of a new piece. That’s what happened to me without filter and what was captured without the intention of being anything more than words and liberated phrases—letting the work of the songwriter flow.

This book doesn’t promise redemption, but it does offer a secret companionship: to know oneself is also dry leaves, carried along by the very same wind"".

**Daniel Gutiérrez**