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This Thursday, November 14, the Deslinde Poetry Festival of Cartagena begins the program of its fourth edition with an act in collaboration with Cartagena Piensa and an exceptional guest.
The poet and philosopher Jorge Riechmann will be in Cartagena presenting his latest work 'Graffiti for Neanderthals' (Eolas Ediciones, 2019) at the Josefina Soria Library of the Ramón Alonso Luzzy Cultural Center at 8:00 p.m.
It will be presented by Belen Rosa de Gea, PhD in Philosophy and member of the Cartagena Piensa promoter group.
'Graffiti for Neanderthals' is a hybrid book whose alloy mixes prose prose and poems.
The cicerone that guides us through its pages is Ñor, a sort of Taoist monk worried about the revelation to the world of his destiny: the ecological-social and anthropological collapse as a result of the resounding failure of capitalism.
Jorge Riechmann, following the idea of ​​Albert Camus, puts his work to the "service of the truth", even knowing the disbelief of the people, who, as María Zambrano says, raises before her "an artillery castle."
Despite this, its objective is none other than to raise awareness (not without irony or delicate haikus) of the importance of compassion, godliness, lucidity and love to avoid future genocides due to energy decline and climate change.
Maybe it's your hardest book.
Jorge Riechmann Fernández Spanish poet born in Madrid in 1962, has a degree in Mathematical Sciences from the Complutense University, also has studies in philosophy, German literature and political science, and is a translator, essayist and ecologist.
Currently Professor of moral philosophy at the University of Barcelona since 1995, he is also editor of the magazine "Meanwhile" and translator of French and German literature.
He is considered by critics as one of the best exponents of Spanish poetry in recent decades.
He has obtained, among others, the prizes: Poetry Hyperion in 1987, Book Fair of Madrid in 1993, National Poetry Villafranca del Bierzo in 1996, Jaén de Poesía in 1997, and in 2000 the awards: International Gabriel Celaya de Poesía and Stendhal of Translation.
His poetic work is contained in the following publications: "Erosion song" in 1987, "Berlin notebook" in 1989, "Mobile material" in 1993, "Both April in October", "The cut under the skin" and "Dance with a foreigner »in 1994,« Figurations of yours »,« Violent hope »and« The truth is a fire where we burn », contain poems from the eighties although they were hardly published in« Loving you without return »in 1995. As author of An extensive poetic work, is linked to the group of poets of the poetry of consciousness and the generation of the eighties or post-new.
Petricor
I have visited
Trotsky's house in Coyoacán
the tomb of Brecht in Berlin
I have written grief poems by Rosa Luxemburg
and Fermín Salvochea
I've dreamed of the pink Revolution
tangled up in the hair of a girl
Now that humanity rushes
swift to its ecological collapse I aspire
the smell of wet earth
of the first rains of September
Without remedy
We were fine
But they told us that we had to try at all costs
be better
and there we crashed
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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