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José María Álvarez, born in Cartagena, Spain in 1942, is a Spanish poet y novelist.

The principal work of Álvarez is Museo de cera (The Wax Museum),

http://books.google.ie/books?id=pf1A8uB-eWoC Edition: 7, illustrated Published by Editorial Renacimiento, 2002 ISBN 8484720365, 9788484720362 879 pages

which has been a work in progress over many years due the author's endeavour to bring to completion a unique and all-encompassing book (un libro único y totalizador). Nevertheless, in the most recent edition Álvarez brings they cycle to a conclusion. José María Álvarez has followed a number of the trends in contemporary Spanish poetry passing from socially aware poetry to a culturalism deriving from his life experience. His protagonist is no revolutionary wishing to change lives, but a bon vivant, disdaigner of vulgarity, lover of lost causes.

His poems are often bipartite:

1. An introductory quote (allusions to cinematography, dialogugues from theatre, fragments of novels, poems, essays, song lyrics, etc.) and
2. The poem as such, which attempts to organise chaos, to explain an incomprehensible world.

In 2003, he published his reminiscences Los decorados del olvido (The stage sets of oblivion) ISBN: 9788484721406. Publisher: Renacimiento Publication Date: 2004

, a poetic work reflecting, generally in a sarcastic tone, on sex and society.

External Links (in Spanish)

• CTpedia
• His personal Web Page
• Poems of José María Álvarez
• José María Álvarez in Cisne Negro (The Black Swan)
• José María Álvarez, Sobre Shakespeare (On Shakespeare) (El Gaviero Ediciones, Almería, 2005).