Helena de Carlos returns to poetic writing with “Imag”

It cannot be decanted or silenced, explored to begin extracting, one by one, its components. If it falls, it’s because the academy and research facilities occupied a good part of the space, or at all at times. Poida que fose o nacimento ea dunha fine upbringing, ou que a escritura é constante, pero no siempre focused on poetic work. The best, of course, is to manage to finish in the time that was interrupted by several months of imprisonment. Observe, feel more. Be proud of introspection. .

Sex like fun, it’s been 16 years Vigo and Imago (Faktoría K), a collection of songs that broke the silence, or that imposed a prison on the streets, which is expressed in songs that Helena de Carlos (Cenlle, 1964) arremuíña nun Imago da a piques estivo of levar by name diapause. The poet was so fascinated by that process of almost complete suspension of functions that certain insects enter, usually before metamorphosis, even when they have fallen in love with pandemic coexistence: entering adolescence, the call of life or climacteric, to maturity.

“In the end, you find out that deep down we are in constant transformation, but the truth is that for Muller those two ritual moments (and in fact ancient societies marked us with some kind of commemoration) are huge symbols,” he explains. the writer presented to you in Compostela or the book illustrated by Marisa Camino.

songs, short in most of them, which are related to maintaining the desire of the narrative discourse, provides the syntax of the story. To deepen their weight in etymology, they seek to break down each word in order to discover their unique story in a genre that, the ancients knew, had to force the discovery of messages “because its rhythmic and musical characteristics could facilitate its assimilation” but at the same time “to last understanding always needed help»

Poetry fell into today’s society and remained an orphan of guides, companions and commentators. Ou se cadra é is a poetic voice that is more suitable in this fast world to be able to stop, chew, enjoy fashion. To be able to reflect, internalize the verses and assimilate them with a certain pause. It falls, until poetic voice It’s more seasoned for a time that keeps you flipping between the pages. Poems do not require a lengthy journey, like an essay or a novel.

Or keep in mind the specific weight of each word Imago a delicate balance that governs between individual and collective metamorphosis. Society has entered a pandemic and will emerge from the transformation. different. “Some things we take as an individual character when nothing ever has that character 100%, least of all the pandemic, a phenomenon that is experienced in communities”, which composed verses based on measures that affected, above all, the “social dimension. It is to try to alleviate the effects of contamination, but also to alleviate all social, economic and labor problems that could arise from such a unique state of emergency that has never existed before, at least for several generations.”

Or his teaching work grows with each reflection, as he tells him that “you get stuck in things like or you teach, but immediately you start to see the consequences on an individual level, but because they are social consequences, dunha sociedade with my serious problems.” And iso, notes Helena de Carlos, is also present in Imago.