Monday, May 16, 2011

Iberoam .- Spain and Latin authors claim the "poetry with the uncertainty" of the crisis in a new anthology

GRANADA / MADRID, 16 May. The Book Viewer editorial published the anthology "Poetry to uncertainty ', in which a group of young authors from Spain and Latin America claim a poetry that first of all be understood and excited" at a time "full of uncertainties." These are the poets Ali Calderón (Mexico), Andrea Cote (Colombia), Jorge Galán (El Salvador), Raquel Lanseros (Spain), Daniel Rodríguez Moya (Spain), Francisco Ruiz Udiel (Nicaragua), Fernando Valverde (Spain) Wajszczuk Ana (Argentina), who have in common, language, some important literary careers, but above all share the same view of poetry.

The anthology has been published simultaneously in Spain (Visor Libros), Colombia (Icon Editorial), Nicaragua (Lethe Edition), El Salvador (DPI) and Mexico (Poetry Circle), the largest publishing project that has ever made for an anthology of poems in Spanish. In total, more than 10,000 copies have been distributed to new editions that will join other countries in the autumn.

'Poetry to uncertainty' has been presented already in Granada Book Fair, and on Monday 16 May is in Madrid, at Casa de America at 19.00 hours, by poet Benjamin Prado, in an act framed in the poetic cycle "The baton of the wind." "The uncertainty appears to cover everything: politics, morality, economy, new forms of communication that have paradoxically resulted in greater isolation ...", the authors explain in the foreword.

"Our generation is marked by uncertainty, and we believe it is necessary to stop on the road, thinking, looking into each others eyes, to establish a closeness less artificial, more human. Poetry can shed some light to achieve some certainty necessary" caution in the manifesto with which to start the book, titled "Defence of Poetry ', which has emerged in response to today's young poets are often attached to a dark trend as experimental and can not understand anybody." "It happens the same way in Spain than in Latin America.

The fragmentary speeches, irrationalism as dogma and abuse of the device have led to the ruin of poetry. They are the waste that has led to the current poetic crisis, in which poetry is regarded as a difficult genre, is not understood and only read the poets among them, "say the authors, who claim a poem" clear ", to communicate, say something.

"When a poem does not mean the reader is usually blaming yourself. We believe that what happens is that the poet has not done its job," he notes. THE MEETING OF THE "WORD JUST" For the Colombian poet Juan Manuel Roca, who signs the back, the new Spanish-language poets have decided to launch this project, "do not come to mock secrecy, that old legacy of that is drowned in his own dazzling "but instead" the sister dispossession, the research and finding the right word in the huge haystack of language.

" In the words of the Nicaraguan Alegria, is "an exceptional anthology invaded by its freshness and excellence because the authors know how to be transparent without being frivolous, without neglecting the way." In addition to Granada and Madrid, 'Poetry against uncertainty' will be presented this week in Valladolid and León.

In Valladolid will be May 17 at 20:00 pm in the auditorium of the University, a classroom activity framed within the El Norte de Castilla, who will present Carlos ARGANZA, poet and director of northern Castile. In Leon, the anthology will be presented by Tomas Sanchez Santiago (poet and novelist) and Camino Ochoa (LIJ poet and critic) at 20.00 am on Wednesday, May 18 Leon Hall Region Institute of Culture.

Likewise, summer will be released in Colombia, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Mexico.

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