Professor Osvaldo Sandoval-Leon wrote these words for the back cover of the book:
“Parvedad de alpiste captures human complexity through word and image. Each poem is a strong invitation to look into the soul and explore the darkest depths of consciousness. Each verse evokes a wide range of emotions: from euphoria to melancholy, from passion to betrayal, from love to death. Nature prostrates itself as a witness to the poet’s suffering and even invokes the self-destruction of the individual, but without failing to draw a glimmer of hope. In the poems of the first section there is a fruitful stubbornness with memory and a longing that strives to reason ephemeral unions, impossible truces, rejections and artifices of the past. Then, the poetic voice branches out in a relentless search to rediscover the essence of a poet committed to humanity. The poems of the second section take refuge in creative freedom and the power of the written word; a poetry that “is not suitable for weak consciences”. The speaker is intoxicated with fury, passion and fortitude to resist and devour a continuum of violence embodied in migratory experiences, massacres, monotonies, materialities and hypocrisies. Chrystian Zegarra continues to be one of the prominent and representative voices of contemporary Peruvian poetry. His distinctive style, immanent by nature, brings together a human fauna where distortion, degradation and the grotesque find the necessary beauty to coexist. Undoubtedly, this poetry book sums up an exquisite and undeniably innovative maturity.”