En TRATADO DE AUSENCIAS, el poeta dominicano Rafael A. Tejada nos ofrece su particular y honda visión poética de la ausencia (como ente, como monstruo, como arma de la soledad) en sus múltiples facetas, desde la ausencia de la mujer amada, pasando por la ausencia del amigo fallecido, hasta la ausencia que da la distancia de su pueblo natal. Este es un poemario vital para descubrir la profundidad (el talento y el dominio técnico) de la visión poética del autor.

In A TREATISE ON ABSENCE, Dominican poet Rafael A. Tejada offers us his particular and profound poetic vision of absence (as an entity, as a monster, as a weapon of loneliness) in its many facets, from the absence of the beloved woman, through the absence of the deceased friend, to the absence built by the distance that separates him from his hometown. This is a vital collection of poems to discover the depth (talent and technical mastery) of the author's poetic vision.