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Presentation
Poetry, as indicated by Bousoño, “is communication of a special kind of knowledge established by mere words. Psychic knowledge as a particular whole, as a unique and intuitive synthesis of what is conceptual, sensorial and affective.”
Nevertheless, we believe that the poem sometimes imitates and sometimes expresses what occurs in the being’s soul; likewise, it consists in the flow of more or less evident states of consciousness throughout time. Not for nothing Herder said that poetry was the mother tongue of mankind and consequently, a book of poetry is the completion of centuries of search.
We sincerely believe, apart from other non-strictly poetical considerations, that nowadays even more than ever, we need men and women who set out passion, when opening themselves to the peak of the unknown, who lift us from so much low-flying, from so much high hope in a world with no horizons nor dreams, who rescue us and propose the return to utopia with hopeful conviction, daring to build a world through word, through poetry, where freedom is possible, because what matters in life is not the steps you have taken but the footsteps you have left.
Programme
PRESENTER: Antonio Mula
COORDINATOR: José Luis Rico
15th century – Ephemeral life
Verses on the Death of Don Rodrigo Manrique, his Father (Jorge Manrique): José Luis Rico
16th century – From bucolic to mystical
Fragment of an eclogue (Garcilaso de la Vega): Nelly Ferreira
Verses Born From the Flames of God’s Love (Santa Teresa de Jesús): Carmen F. Bolaños
17th century – The garden of disillusionment
III conference – XIX scene – Life Is a Dream (Calderón de la Barca): Antonio Boronat
18th century – Didactics of reason
The Payment World Gives to Poets (Diego Torres y Villaroel): Rafael Lillo
19th century – Liberated passion
Rhymes – IV (Gustavo Adolfo Becquer): Miguel Ángel Sánchez
20th century – The aesthetics of senses (Spanish Modernism)
Sunset (Manuel Machado): Mari Feli Serrano
Remorse? (Juan Ramón Jiménez): Conchi Agulló
20th century – In search of a new identity (Generation of ’98)
Of the Ephemeral Past (Antonio Machado): Antonio Mula
20th century – Gongora’s children (Generation of ’27)
Body and Soul (Vicente Aleixandre): Elena Escolano
Insomnia (Dámaso Alonso): Mati Zamorano
20th century – Winners and defeated (Generation of ’36)
And Write Your Silence Over the Water (Luis Rosales): Lucía Francisco
Our Youth Does Not Die (Miguel Hernández): Elvira Pizano
20th century – Anxious Humanism (Generation of ’50)
To The Great Majority (Blas de Otero): Chelo Oñate
My Own Prophecy Is My Memory (José Manuel Caballero Bonald): Mª Dolores Iglesias
Against Jaime Gil de Biedma (Jaime Gil de Biedma): Encarni Segarra
20th century – The new sensibility (The Newest Ones)
Craving in Aranjuez (Guillermo Carnero): Paquita Baeza
Saulo and the Birds (Antonio Martínez Sarrión): Rafael Torres
20th century – The urban monologue (Poetry of Experience)
As Every Morning (Luis García Montero): Carmen F. Bolaños
Date and Place
Friday the 20th of March of 2015 at 20:00h.
Alicante Town University Venue
Assembly Hall, Room Rafael Altamira
Av. Ramón y Cajal, nº 4 03001 – Alicante
Attendance
Free admission subject to capacity.