"Poetry is the language of yoga"

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Experienced and eventually experimental poet and visual artist, Alberto Blanco recently published The call and the gift, which reflects on the practice of verbal art and explores its virtually endless possibilities. No doubt, a book of creative maturity.   The first time that the poet and visual artist Alberto Blanco (1951) attended the International Book Fair of Guadalajara (FIL) was in 1999 when he presented a book of the architect and sculptor Fernando González Gortázar Guadalajara. Last year, White attended the 25th edition of the IDF to present his book of poetry The call and the gift, edited by Marco Perilli in the new editorial Auieo and printed in Guadalajara. Interviewed shortly before submitting their work, says: "I have many years writing and publishing poetry in magazines, my first publication is 1970, so it's been more than 40 years. In book form, published it Turns headlights Economic Culture Fund Mexican letters in his collection in 1979. Since then there have been many books of poetry, in Mexico about 30, and abroad a lot, in different languages. " Alberto Blanco received the 1988 prize for poetry with the book Carlos Pellicer Cards, and the following year, José Fuentes Mares for his book Song of the shadow of the animals, which contains drawings of Francisco Toledo. In 1996 the Netherlands received the diploma of IBBY Honor List by insects are also perfect. Emphasizes that it is the first time published an essay devoted to poetry. "Not this or that clear-poet, not a critical book of poetry, is a book of reflections on the practice of poetry." He adds that for many years made essays on visual arts: "Let's say I did my homework in the test area with the visual arts for 20 years, not doing more, and largely has to do with focusing the attention of my reflection in my office, which is poetry. " With over 20 individual and five group exhibitions both in Mexico and other countries, White wrote in the catalog of the retrospective Visual poetry / visual poetry that appeared in The Athenaeum Gallery, San Diego, California: "Beyond the Nexus poetry in these works is a common denominator: paper. (...) After all a writer ever does not stray too far from the blank. " The translator and musician also states that the gift is called and the contents of Zen Buddhism, which is a practitioner, but also "a thousand things." White refers to the index of the book to highlight areas covering 12 chapters, including poetry and poetics, poetry, and poetry, past, myth, language, knowledge, tradition, writing, translation and inspiration. But for him this book is only part of a process of reflection "that continues to grow. The veins, edges of a reflection on the practice of poetry can be many, many might almost say, but I'm not that far: they simply reflect a script that somehow shed light on what I understand about my process poetic, by necessity have to cover many fields, many points of view, because in my own poetry I was interested in many things, and in many ways to write poetry. " Then mentions his encounter with a small book of short poems published in 2001 entitled More of this silence. "The practice of haiku-says-is closely related to Buddhism, is a possibility, there are many possibilities." Pianist and composer, in the seventies Alberto Blanco was part of the rock band The Commune, and in the eighties created the jazz and experimental music Atomic Las Plumas. About his work as a musician, said: "I am interested in music, I'm making music, I've had bands. Look, at the beginning of the book do a brief inscription that says: 'A poetry: half image, half music, half poetry'. "A Spanish publisher saw the dedication and said, 'This is impossible, a body can not have three halves, by definition, a body only has two halves'. Yes, I said, but we're talking about poetry, poetry can have three halves and more. So it's a poetic definition of poetry, that is, a definition impossible, but it is not nonsense, it has to do with the essential features of speech and language: the ability to summon images, visual representations. " Abounds poet: "If I say the word 'tree', you see a tree, the reader sees a tree, I see a tree, we all see a tree I do not know what tree, I do know what I'm seeing is, I do not know which one you're watching, but you also see it. If I ask you to observe more closely what I might start to tell if you have many sheets or not, what color, what time is. But this ability to conjure up images is an essential feature of language, another essential feature of language, the word is the sound, right now we're using. " After summarizing other aspects of artistic activity: "One big eminently connected with all the arts that have to do with the eyes, visual arts, the other with the arts that have to do with music, and poetry by force is interested in two aspects: the visual arts and music, in my case in a very brazen, not just as an interest but as a practice. " He adds: "But there's another area, which is the most mysterious of all with respect to language: the mystery of the word as meaning. That's where we come to the brunt of poetry: poetry as the spearhead of language. At some point say, 'poetry is the yoga of language is the language charged to the end, dancing on the edge of the impossible, reflecting on itself, extending the field of meaning making and seizing the impossible.' " He points out that often used the word poetry to mean different things: "To speak of the ineffable, the deeply significant, the sublime, and even apologize for the expletive, the transcendent or the divine. This book does not gotten down to that aspect of poetry because, from my point of view, what can not talk is better not to speak, far beyond our means. "However, the other meaning of poetry, which I call 'lower case' is an art that has to do with language, which has a tradition in our case of poetry written in Spanish, of which something can say and that is manifested in these socially undesirable objects called poems. Already on the poems started talking about something a little more concrete. " He concludes: "This book is a reflection, in this modest sense of the possibilities of the poem. What can we say about a poem? We say 10 thousand things. Call it a music box built with words that we talk their own history. And this is a picture as any other. "

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