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

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PRESENTER: Antonio Mula

COORDINATOR: José Luis Rico

15^th century – Ephemeral life

                Verses on the Death of Don Rodrigo Manrique, his Father (Jorge Manrique): José Luis Rico

16^th 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

17^th century – The garden of disillusionment

                III conference – XIX scene – Life Is a Dream (Calderón de la Barca): Antonio Boronat

18^th century – Didactics of reason

                The Payment World Gives to Poets (Diego Torres y Villaroel): Rafael Lillo

19^th century – Liberated passion

                Rhymes – IV (Gustavo Adolfo Becquer): Miguel Ángel Sánchez

20^th century – The aesthetics of senses (Spanish Modernism)

                Sunset (Manuel Machado): Mari Feli Serrano

                Remorse? (Juan Ramón Jiménez): Conchi Agulló

20^th century – In search of a new identity (Generation of ’98)

                Of the Ephemeral Past (Antonio Machado): Antonio Mula

20^th century – Gongora’s children (Generation of ’27)

                Body and Soul (Vicente Aleixandre): Elena Escolano

                Insomnia (Dámaso Alonso): Mati Zamorano

20^th 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

20^th 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

20^th century – The new sensibility (The Newest Ones)

                Craving in Aranjuez (Guillermo Carnero): Paquita Baeza

                Saulo and the Birds (Antonio Martínez Sarrión): Rafael Torres

20^th century – The urban monologue (Poetry of Experience)

                As Every Morning (Luis García Montero): Carmen F. Bolaños

Date and Place

Friday the 20^th 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.