Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Big Fish Games To Play For Free Hack

Das ist mein Streit (RMR)

That's my argument is:
longing consecrated
wander through every day. dig deep
Then, strong and wide, with a thousand roots
strip
in the life-
and the suffering
far from life, mature
far out of time!
................................ 1897

Esta es mi lucha:
consagrado al anhelo
andar a traves de los días errante.
Y después fuerte, and large,
a thousand strands of
foothold deep roots in the life-
through pain and
mature far beyond life, beyond
time.
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anthologized poem in Forty-nine poems by Rainer Maria Rilke , selection, translation and introduction of Antonio Pau, Madrid, Trotta, 2008.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Printable Rose Garden Seating Chart Rows

Reflections II / Invitation

I continue with Steiner. I still have many ideas about contemporary poetry, the logocracy, hermetic poetry and its influence in Mexico, difficult issue not so much by the authors (who appear, but only seem obvious) but intertexts and original influences (ie . that gave rise) ... the biggest problem is that I think we have a completely logocrático poet, but moments of light scattered in many authors, fragmentary of Mexican poetry, "or reaction condition? ***




Steiner says:

We are ashamed to admit any modal inhibition, closed confess any expressive act no matter how remote is of our own time and space. But this is spurious receptive ecumenism. Deliberately confuses, with a genuine understanding, with a penetrating look inside, familiarity reconstructive achieved under archaeological knowledge and feeling.

* The secrecy of the post-Mallarmé poetry is an attempt, not without a tinge of irony, to shake off the limitations of the influence and public-academic expectations based on the canonical. ***


On Friday I'll be at a poetry reading in Donceles 66, to go with close friends and contemporaries admired among some of them: Aurelio Meza, Santiago Matías, Karina Falcón, Balam Rodrgio, et al.

A pair of reading tables, a discussion board on the recent Mexican poetry and a book presentation. It all starts at 16:30, but I do not know for certain times of the tables, it seems that I will be the last at about 20:00, then music and something to soak the gullet. (Thanks, by the way, Karina, the mastermind of this, remember a server).

hope we meet there.





Thursday, July 10, 2008

Floral Stands - For Rent

reflexes I homeland


I been reading some articles George Steiner to refine my masters project. His essays, samples of clarity and intelligence is no waste anywhere, texts whose main foundation is courtesy humanist, even those with whom one may not agree with courtesy, good nature (what a beautiful word so unusual) of give us the tools to cope. Steiner is at the same time, the guard and the objector of his ideas, Europe, books, literature, high culture, Heidegger, de Maistre ... This is the humility of humanism, to know that anyone can respond and listening with respect, this is also the courage of the humanist, sitting in front of the opponent, the student, who that is, with really bright eyes, ready to educate, to close, with love for the Other and the Word, with an irony so fine that betrays a love for the Word, not contempt for the listener ... Reading

Steiner project ideas come to me, long projects that could devote a lifetime of careful search. Many ideas come to mind, many I land it, others simply ignore them because life is never enough. Many projects, many want to read, to read the world, reading life.

While I still think, I present a poem by the great Colombian poet William Ospina. In its way, the poem has to do with some ideas that are around, surround redound my head.

All life is a journey, all life is a book, a lifetime in a verse and a verse from the air that gives life.

"Where they burn books today, tomorrow will burn human beings"
H. Heine


FRANZ KAFKA

Father, I say, give me three grains of barley to wake the sleeper.
But my father did not respond;
is a huge bronze rider, high on hills and synagogues.
Mother, I say, away so much fog,
show me a sweet face, which sprout naïve words.
But she lost in the alleys of stone and only find in their ojosi nmensos mirror.
Grandpa, tell By then, most do not fight with the angel, come tell stories with lfuego, while freezes the Elbe.
But the old man looks at me with eyes absent, and understand that my grandfather is but an old gypsy who wants to sell me a memory.
sister, beautiful sister, I say, take my hand
pscuro in this house is huge.
But to me goes a Polish countess
monumental and arrogant and you hear a violin, and closes a door.
Brother, I say, what a fine ride the horse of wood and lacquer,
where do we take these evenings uncertain?
But he is just an image, a gray picture in my hands, and far
, atrocious, cannons resonate.
Goethe, I say, sing me a song Roman
make me feel in my heart this ancient sadness.
But the tomb is silent and gray doves flying over it and I can not open this book because the pages are of ash. Millennium
I say then, maybe you can finally save me, tell me
sot of flesh and blood, that what torments me is a desire.
But she loved afantasma thousands of emaciated and barely perceive two flames that far off.
So is all this madness? Who I can call to save me?
His kingdom is of this world. All are accepted and cleared.
are human too, are very tight, and not
managed to talk to my sound of elytra,
and never learned to cross the gates, and I can not defend
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If you see two gray eyes on the night of Prague Gothic
understand that I am afraid to die if I fall asleep.
If you hear a song on the night of Prague Gothic
understand Quei ntento know where I stand.
If you hear a heart on the night of Prague Gothic
understand who holds the whole dream.

Friday, July 4, 2008

Brussel Griffon/poodles Mix



Here I am. Back after many months. I would plead work, thesis or many things ... however, I must say that the main thing was the boredom, the better, the spleen . It was not fatigue NDA, were simply the desire to say nothing, or words that were and would not let me say anything. He spent a lot and all I write, I did not and is not the time to do so, are those things that after a while, ceased to be current, they lose some of its meaning. Many things, unamitas in Ecuador, consultation, reforms are not reached, the deceptions, deaths ... many things, after a long process, I graduated with a thesis on the ballads, a thesis I wrote with taste, flavor, a thesis with which I met a literary world that I never imagined such a complex and rich, and yet I wrote a thesis without the passion with which I was accustomed to do things ... many things, a horrible introductory course to enter the master classes in automatically, without rhyme or reason, without a clear, intellectual platitudes and an underestimation insulting (to some) ... lot, the entrance to the master, back to my project, return to the passion, emotion and thinking of making poetry from deep intellectual, visceral from the hypothalamus, from the desire to read widely and write what is necessary .. .
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I'm happy, I feel half but in the process, as I like to feel. I will use the break to rest, resume writing and reading what I like. I will take vacation and think you, idle reader, will suffer.
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[By the way, good old Alfredo Carrera has sent me a prize. Thanks, man, by the cebollazo, reading and patience after time. Will a hug.]
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And to continue, not my voice, but Francisco:

The resignation of the witness.

And how I've matured. In this light
'm dead and fall. There is a light, which is cold,
........................................ ......................... black, black. They waited

my eyes here that the sky was always grilled
and the stars appeared, pure, live,
in the same place (and before the man was
and that was the flower and bird), the exact
beauty of the eternal birth.
Nothing mattered then go.
remained light and was eternal.
The world's youth, his joyful beat, was itself testimony
demi life.
Who could extinguish the flames in my eyes?
flashed to live, and I bore witness
existence.


Now watch this sky and see its light tamibén has aged.

The stars were not young. Or eternal.
And I've witnessed,
with my life, no permanence.

black Spirit will give me his wing, and the Spirit
white born of it, know the essence of Light,
their absence.

Francisco Brines, The last shore