POETRY READING: LYRIC GEOGRAPHY

Fecha: 

Friday, 23 November, 2018 - 20:00

DATE AND PLACE

23 November, 2018 – 8:00 pm

CULTURAL CENTRE – AUDITORI EL CAMPELLO

PLAZA CONSTITUCIÓ, 4 – 03560 – EL CAMPELLO

PRESENTATION

If we were to define “lyric” (from the Latin lyrĭcus, and this one from the Greek λυρικός) it is a literary genre in which the author expresses feelings, emotions or subjective sensations regarding a person or inspiration object. The lyrical genre usual expression is the poem.

Geography is the Science that concerns the description and explanation of the physical and human phenomena on the Earth’s surface. Landscape or territory with specific physical characteristics.

Cultural process is the correlate of the historical process and poetry, as culture integrative element, doesn’t evade that bond. Multiple landscape beauties are not away from the poets who sing them. The landscape isn’t the one who sings to itself. It is men who sing it and who tell the personal and social avatars that happen over the centuries. Even, and notoriously the language they use depends on the time lived for the poets, their social inclusion and their world view, implicit or explicitly defining their aesthetics.

The look over different geographical spaces comes to us as words and styles, syntax and rhythms that become tangible and almost palpable insofar as you pass from one to another. They are texts that reflect a ‘set out’.

Cultural approach values the study of places as sites of individual or collective human experience which leads to the particular values of the works of art, especially in literature.

We could in any case conclude that combining the two basic geography elements, which are territory and people, with the poetry ones, emotion and feelings, we get a spectacular result of love and beauty.

(…)They say Ulysses, wearied of wonders,
wept with love on seeing Ithaca,
humble and green. Art is that Ithaca,
a green eternity, not wonders (…).

These four verses from Borges represent a complete synthesis of our personal travel through the Odyssey and our recital that, after all, is our travel through the poetry and geography: ‘Art is that Ithaca, a green eternity’ that summarises this experience.

 

POEMS

Viaje sin llegada ………………………………………………………………………………………Gloria Fuertes
Atlas geográfico universal…………………………………………..………....... Felipe Benítez Reyes
Geografía es amor ……………………………………………………………………………..José García Nieto
Cuando yo era el niño de dios ……………………………………………………..Juan Ramón Jiménez
De la diversa Andalucía ………………………………………………………………………Jorge Luis Borges
Balada del que nunca fue a Granada……………….……………………………………..Rafael Alberti
Madrid …………………………………………………………………………………………….Luis García Montero
Áspero mundo………………………………………………………………………………………….Ángel González
Tres millones de peces …………………………………….…………………………………………Roger Wolfe
Amor lejano…………………………………………….…….………………………………………………….José Albi
Canto XII …………………………………………………………………………………………………José Luis Ferris
Civilización y barbarie ……………………………………….…….Olivia Martínez Giménez de León
Campos de Soria (Fields of Soria) ………………………………………………….……Antonio Machado
Soneto (Sonnet) ……………………………………………………………………………Francisco de Quevedo
El cielo de Damasco ………………………………………………………………………….Francisco Valverde
Al Almendares ……………………………………………………………………..……………….Dulce Mª Loinaz
Arrabal ………………………………………………………………………………………………..Jorge Luis Borges
Carta a Roberto Fdez. Retamar (Habana) …………………………………………………Juan Gelman
El hombre que pasea por Manhattan…………………………………………………….Raquel Lanseros
País abandonado …………………………………………………………………………….Luis García Montero

 

READING BY

  • Rafael Torres
  • Carmen Santisteban
  • Elvira Pizano
  • Antonio Mula
  • Paquita Baeza
  • Lucía Francisco
  • Carmen F. Bolaños
  • Nelly Ferreira
  • Carmina Botella
  • Josep Durá
  • Chelo Oñate
  • Miguel Ángel Sánchez
  • Conchi Agulló
  • Mª Carmen Sacristán
  • Mati Zamorano
  • Mª Dolores Iglesias
  • José Luis Rico

 

COORDINATOR

José Luis Rico

PRESENTER

Antonio Mula

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