PUERTO VALLARTA: Mexican writer, translator and editor Hector Carreto has reimagined the lives of Clark Kent and Superman in 67 poems that focus on the duality of identity, the National Culture and Arts Council, or Conaculta, said.
Carreto, who was born in Mexico City in 1953, presents "a Superman who is distressed, enveloped in loneliness and in love with Lois L., and shows the character without a disguise, human, with doubts and needs" in "Testamento de Clark Kent," the arts agency said in a statement.
"The world of comic books gives us Superman as a character who is too serious, straight and without a sense of humor, who never smiles, has no carnal desires and we have no idea what his favorite drinks are," Carreto said.
Carreto's work has been published in foreign magazines and translated into English, French, Italian and Hungarian.
"I thought it would be interesting to see what happened to this superhero if you gave him feelings like ours," Carreto said.
"Testamento de Clark Kent," published by Almadia, shows how the personality of "The Man of Steel" grows.
Mexican Poet Draws Inspiration from Superman
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