Post by shakhar24 on Feb 28, 2024 11:18:05 GMT
To talk about the poetry of Antonia Álvarez Álvarez (Babia), we adopt the same words that Carlos Bousoño used when referring to the very personal originality of Claudio Rodríguez: «from within a literary current, perfectly defined and enunciable, with which "They already relate to what they owe the fundamental direction of their poetic impulse, as well as the fundamental configuration of their style." Because he has been demonstrating this since , the date in which he published The Look of the Air , and from there he traced an impeccable career with titles as personal as The Root of Light , Despite the Shadows , Where the Snow , All the Clocks and , finally, Cauces (Eolas editions), with which he won the José Antonio Ochaíta Prize).
A poetic current with an intense and original tone that is transmitted to us "in the modulation of its style", to borrow other words from Bousoño . In Cauces it is understood that the two quotes, those by Claudio Rodríguez and José Ángel Valente , that open the set are C Level Executive List not placed randomly, but rather show some of the voices of our literary tradition that the poet from Asturias has assimilated; We will say the same about Virgilio, so present in Álvarez 's quotes ; or the assumption of Machadian poetics; Innovative poets, in short, who left us visions that went beyond the temporal scope and transcend to the present day, and that our poet has known how to pour with skill until she impregnates the poems with existentialist sap. antonio alvarezIn the poetics of Antonia Álvarez there is a thematic motif that distinguishes her poetry, as we said on the occasion of the review of All the Clocks , we are offered the view of time always from within, the meaning of transit is given through the memory.
The most recent title is associated with the project of leaving memory from a restrained interior. Cauces is structured in two different but well-cohesive sections. The first, most extensive section, “Channels of Light,” becomes the vital flow of the being, where life and nature spill into each word. Already in the first poem, the poet is presented to us as an observer from a privileged place of continuous discoveries, the Babia valley that awakens nature ("Here, next to the sebes / stripped of shadow in spring"), from where They contemplate the moments irrevocably linked to meditation, as if the passage of time built identity: "for so many springs, / I am and I am." The conception of the passage of time is attached to the feelings that the moments lived produce, thus we read: "I loved the land, the time of those afternoons." And, in the same poem, we sense that moving away from oblivion has a high price: "I even loved the pain of not having you.
A poetic current with an intense and original tone that is transmitted to us "in the modulation of its style", to borrow other words from Bousoño . In Cauces it is understood that the two quotes, those by Claudio Rodríguez and José Ángel Valente , that open the set are C Level Executive List not placed randomly, but rather show some of the voices of our literary tradition that the poet from Asturias has assimilated; We will say the same about Virgilio, so present in Álvarez 's quotes ; or the assumption of Machadian poetics; Innovative poets, in short, who left us visions that went beyond the temporal scope and transcend to the present day, and that our poet has known how to pour with skill until she impregnates the poems with existentialist sap. antonio alvarezIn the poetics of Antonia Álvarez there is a thematic motif that distinguishes her poetry, as we said on the occasion of the review of All the Clocks , we are offered the view of time always from within, the meaning of transit is given through the memory.
The most recent title is associated with the project of leaving memory from a restrained interior. Cauces is structured in two different but well-cohesive sections. The first, most extensive section, “Channels of Light,” becomes the vital flow of the being, where life and nature spill into each word. Already in the first poem, the poet is presented to us as an observer from a privileged place of continuous discoveries, the Babia valley that awakens nature ("Here, next to the sebes / stripped of shadow in spring"), from where They contemplate the moments irrevocably linked to meditation, as if the passage of time built identity: "for so many springs, / I am and I am." The conception of the passage of time is attached to the feelings that the moments lived produce, thus we read: "I loved the land, the time of those afternoons." And, in the same poem, we sense that moving away from oblivion has a high price: "I even loved the pain of not having you.