Alma
Pagès
Laietana. Poems
I forgot to write young Crusoe
Editions, 2011
E Alma ste second book contains two TREKKING Pagès, lyrically justified by present meeting in full a full movement the poetic: the light lost in childhood, the reunion with the light and its celebration of the word.
The book includes beautifully this structure, which responds to their metaphorical content. The first part, entitled "Laietana," evokes the city of Barcelona, \u200b\u200bthe former Iberian town of Laie, perched on the mountain of Montjuic, the origin of the name of one of
arteries current Barcelona: Via Laietana. In the sequence of its three sections, Soledad, Rambla de les flors and Via Augusta, the voice that says in the poems of the book goes stained by childhood memories, and physical distance and time, to accompany the reader on a tour of the inner city . As a return ad paradisum or ad inferos, the poet is at the same time, his Virgil and Dante ... and also, the reader. The poems move from the solitude of the crowd, from the feeling of tenderness to the horror. Spring from this sort of acropolis, which produce a feeling of protection and shelter, if it were not lost childhood now, is remembered with anguish - as well as the first lines foreshadow the two emotional tone of the book, tenderness and horror (a which is inserted in the second part of the work, a new tone: enthusiasm):
The girl lost
shivering huddles
store in memory
the voice of love and
the voice of horror
already into the second section, the poems suggest loss, orphans: one terrible blow, even if it occurs when the heart begins to open and flourish, and finally, the lines go out louder and exposed to the world, Via Augusta, in which madness, destruction reign, and where "the sarcasm of the hangman / poisons memory."
Alma Pagès, for years based in Madrid, has managed to present in a delicate, evocative and complex fluid composition, where personal memory of his native Barcelona stained mythic resonance and vice versa, also the mythic journey is filled from personal experience. But, indeed, behind the inner time of the book, guess real time, historical, in the poems: the poet of loss and defeat it is also a historical time, namely Spain.
Thus, the book is illuminated in a new light: no longer is the story of an individual, but the story of a family and, by extension, that of Spain facing the horror, madness and war, and he did not know or know what to do with a basket of flowers in one hand and the other ready to fight.
The second part of the book, "Poems that I forgot to write a youth" is a suite of poems that celebrate the birth, youth always, the joy of guilleniano live. The guide for Alma Pagès, can not be, of course, the teacher Valladolid, which places her voice in a circle of eternity that hangs over this and gives instant fullness. Backwards. Is the present that moves toward full statement, while tragic vitality and poetry of Alma Pagès, so delicate and subtle, that effort continues to show through so that his poems become trimensionales, not flat as give the impression, often, the author of "Song."
Acierta, with wise insight, the poet to make his word so, ultimately joyful, in dialogue with another great poet: Claudio Rodríguez. The first verse of Don of drunkenness announcing this second part we discussed. Is Claudio Rodríguez Castilian poet expressive drawings using more colloquial (read right: the language is colloquial and natural wisdom of the people, not stereotypes, idioms and degraded), in his poem gives the impression that talks to himself and the way usually be expressed in conversation. But, far from being an easy poet, is our poet Claudio Rodríguez Nietzsche: on this so tragic background of existence, which also owns it, drunk it, annihilates it. I make these observations because, as in Claude Rodriguez, the clarity of the poetry of Alma Pagès we can hide the complexity (thematic) and subtlety (rhetoric).
already warned the wink of temporal dialectic present in the title of this part of the book: "Poems forgot young write." What is the focus and the time at which they are written? If writing were forgotten, so do not write, and now these poems come to fill the void? Or rather, the poet "the time he moved to his" young "to bring the poems that were already there, and forgot his departure from the youth?
on Wink Wink: forgetting / memory, youth / maturity / Mute / word.
Perhaps this complexity is not important for the poet, as well as to the effectiveness of his poems on the reader. Poetry, as a joyful gift received by the human maturity is the ability to transport to a world that has just been created. And this is the place, in effect, from which Alma speaks Pagès in the second voice of his book.
the world is so new ! (...)
Today give my life for Life
For the dignity of women looking
for tenderness in the hands of men
For the eternal laughter of children
Finally, we would not fail to note the beautiful life together, in this work, for English and Catalan . There are poems only in Catalan or English only, and others - or sometimes a verse - that occur in both languages \u200b\u200band - wonderful!, Finding poetic content remains the same in both versions, there is a translation from one to another. The poem gains its expression in two different music.
wounded, as the dragon
a story with lyrics closed
Lullaby in the voice of the wind (...)
Herido, as the Dragon
boasts one of the Letters cerradão
Lullaby wind in the voice of (...)
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