Seas
arrested Carlos Alvarez-Ude
Trama Editorial, 2010 104 pp
14 euros
A Carlos Alvarez-Ude (1953-2010) came the publication of his only book of poetry, arrested seas, later. Later it was released on 8 February and died on April 17. But those who knew him highlight his great poetic culture. It seems so strange to find a poet, but not only a poet, editor and cultural agitator also known to have been part of the magazine Insula-with a single book of poetry published.
arrested Carlos Alvarez-Ude
Trama Editorial, 2010 104 pp
14 euros
A Carlos Alvarez-Ude (1953-2010) came the publication of his only book of poetry, arrested seas, later. Later it was released on 8 February and died on April 17. But those who knew him highlight his great poetic culture. It seems so strange to find a poet, but not only a poet, editor and cultural agitator also known to have been part of the magazine Insula-with a single book of poetry published.
Seas detainees is basically a book theme of love, focusing on the figure of Alexandra, in fact one of the poems bearing his name. Alejandra Díaz Ortiz, Mexican writer, was his wife.
reading the poems of Alvarez-Ude one perceives the fullness of love in which the author lived, as proved in each of the poems of detainees seas. Some verses which are certainly indebted to a long tradition of poets who have sung of love. There are aromas of Becquer, Neruda, Benedetti. Yet there is an idea that rotates through many of the verses, a new interpretation of a verse Gil de Biedermann of composition not be young again. Biedma That verse that is "that life was serious," Alvarez-Ude endorsing it several times as "to live is serious" (p.29), "and life is serious" (p. 43) or "life is serious" (p.53). This repetition of an idea that runs throughout the book as a residue of a certain melancholy never know if it was a premonition of approaching death or fatal accident.
Del poems include some ideas or subtopics that depart from the common trunk of the expression of love: the process of falling in love, a return to lost innocence, uncertainty of love, hope it provokes and the states of fullness and absence. These are elaborated in the pages of detainees Seas, poems divided into five parts: The seas wake up, listen seas, the seas are stopped, the sea and Colophon. In the first three speak essentially the process of falling in love and love in the room itself. Maybe in the Colophon found some more clues. I emphasize this poem of them all placed in this final. The gesture is entitled :
A glass in the land that is never full, but overflowing
you catch a hot tear
and then becomes vapor, breath, desire
and words, especially words, and, if lost,
a gesture, a simple gesture of infinite love.
detainees is Seas a simple book to read and understand, even for the layman in the poetic genre. Among its virtues: simplicity, sometimes even excessive, closeness and openness. Just find stylistic devices: the repetition, contradictions or paradoxes in verses relatively bare, no frills, accessible language.
As a final highlight a section called Who is Carlos Alvarez-Ude? where a number of familiar names on the author's opinion along with many other friends and relatives. There is only read
Seas arrested, what better tribute to a poet read his work.
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