Saturday, June 19, 2010

Mackenzie's Planetsuzy



For Guillermo Jaramillo Torres


"I think poetry is the naked word" Otoniel Guevara

"My region is poetry, and the tourist is the only place to get to enjoy the view .
Poetry is life, there can be here as a tourist when so many things to deepen.
Fear of pain and suffering that human beings have not allow us to examine the merits of things because it has to be sifted through these tests of pain. "
"The book itself has a story, not this year but the book itself, because they are about 50 poems, what happened was classic, I already had listed the issue and I melted the hard disk.
The book already had a sponsor and if not take it out on a date had to be going to lose sponsorship.
I had to go looking for the poems in print, there are several versions of poems that were like was not the final some could not find them.
Then about a year ago I found some poems that do not depart saved this year and belong there, so I'm thinking about an issue 'recovered', "said Salvadoran poet Otoniel Guevara, who tonight presents" Not for Tourists "in New Cafe Brazil at 19:00.
Guevara recalls his childhood reading of Gustavo Adolfo Becquer and 'The Little Prince, systematic reading and never isolated. Recalls
agricultural school where literature and culture were not included in the curriculum until the Ministry of Education forced to teach such branches of knowledge.
"The book culture in the seventies was as strong as in those years in Mexico or most important cultural capitals of the continent, but the war cut short all that.
The largest library of my people the death squads blew up because that was selling good literature coming from Mexico, Colombia, Spain, because culture is a source of subversion, that I had very clear. "
Mexico and El Salvador
If things were locked inside, how to open those doors and look out. Remember
Guevara that his generation did not know what was done in literature out of the country.
From time to time he came whispers of a named Sabines in Chiapas and Huerta.
From there, everything else was the Cuban revolution, the Sandinistas, the Mexican films of gold film.
"For us it was a great influence Roque Dalton, not only aesthetic but ethical influence, especially with those who said that every word is backed by your life. That
vehemently us take a kind of poetry of experience that departs from the canons of traditional Mexican poetry where I see a lot of poetry contemplative intellectual. "

"I think poetry is the naked word" Otoniel Guevara.
"My region is poetry, and the tourist is the only place to get to appreciate the scenery.
Poetry is life, can not be here as a tourist when so many things to deepen.
Fear of pain and suffering that human beings have not allow us to examine the merits of things because it has to be sifted through these tests of pain. "
"The book itself has a story, not this year but the book itself, because they are about 50 poems, what happened was classic, I already had listed the issue and I melted the hard disk.
The book already had a sponsor and if not take it out on a date had to be would lose sponsorship.
I had to go looking for the poems in print, there are several versions of poems that were left as it was not definitive, some not found.
Then about a year ago I found some poems that do not depart saved this year and belong there, so I'm thinking about an issue 'recovered', "said Salvadoran poet Otoniel Guevara, who tonight presents" Not for Tourists "in New Cafe Brazil at 19:00.
Guevara recalls his childhood reading of Gustavo Adolfo Becquer and 'The Little Prince, systematic reading and never isolated. Recalls
agricultural school where literature and culture were not included in the curriculum until the Ministry of Education forced to teach such branches of knowledge.
"The book culture in the seventies was as strong as in those years in Mexico or most important cultural capitals of the continent, but the war cut short all that.
The largest library of my people the death squads blew up because that was selling good literature coming from Mexico, Colombia, Spain, because culture is a source of subversion, that I had very clear. "
Mexico and El Salvador
If things were locked inside, how open the door and look out. Remember
Guevara that his generation did not know what was done in literature out of the country.
From time to time he came whispers of a named Sabines in Chiapas and Huerta.
From there, everything else was the Cuban revolution, the Sandinistas, the Mexican films of gold film.
"For us it was a great influence Roque Dalton, not only aesthetic but ethical influence, especially with those who said that every word is backed by your life. That
vehemently us take a kind of poetry of experience that departs from the canons of traditional Mexican poetry where I I see a lot of poetry contemplative intellectual. "
SOURCE: http://www.elporvenir.com.mx/notas.asp?nota_id=405910

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