Every major poet has been a young poet, and therefore the Living Legacies recital, last Sunday at the Palau de la Música, is a tribute to our poetry and also to an accumulated youth. Anna Gual and Jaume C. Pons Alorda will direct and present a recital that highlights a diverse heritage and claims it, because, as Gual said, "sometimes the voices of the masters do not receive the recognition they deserve". After the cellist Mariona Camats, who performed pieces by J.S. Bach, Enric Casals and Elisenda Fàbregas, Antonina Canyelles took to the stage, who read poems with her sense of vindictive humor, and after asking: "Eat, eat and eat blue fish", warned that "I will die / and nothing will happen, / but to me yes".
Rosa Font -"investigator of the hidden and mysteries", according to Gual-, warned that "now everything is red", but also said that if you look "with blind eyes" you read "the silence of everything that has written / without language”. Feliu Formosa read some haikus like “Should I affirm it? / I’m talking about my journey / to the darkness”, and then, before reciting Bertolt Brecht from memory, he reenacted the poem from his Cançoner that begins “You’ll do two tricks and I’ll open the door for you”. And it could well be a blues.
Biel Mesquida sang "the days of each day" and warned that she will take "the soft and aged words" and "I will sharpen them with a whetstone / until I hear them as new as trinca". Francesc Parcerisas recalled that "the absolute is to dream / young joy or the future", while Jaume Pérez Montaner presented some poems from the upcoming Abans del vers (Edicions del Buc), aware that "so many things are forgotten in the mud and the stone".
Josep M. Sala-Valldaura with an "inhuman self-portrait" assures that "inside me I am the fear of a raindrop", he who goes "with a tachycardic bundle of poems" but is clear that "you don't need any other coat / than my skin”. Olga Xirinacs remembered that they had a bomb in the garden at home, but now "the afternoon has the landscape of my years". Finally, moved, Laia Moretó Alvarado, who recited the selection that her sister Elisabet made of the poems of her mother, Nora Albert, and who noted that "the look has no age" and that, perhaps yes, we will be "ashes, but lived ".
There was expectation to gather 600 attendees who did not want to miss it, with a good list of poets and writers such as Lluís Calvo, Àngels Marzo, Julià de Jòdar, Ivette Nadal, Joan Duran, Maria Antònia Massanet, Jordi Valls, Susanna Rafart, Carles Duarte, Pau Gener Galin, Laura López Granell, Vinyet Panyella or Eduard Sanahuja. Also the director of the ILC, Izaskun Arretxe, who is everywhere, and journalists like Xavier Graset, from Vila-seca. No, there weren't many young poets of those who have a few years...
On Tuesday, at the Ona bookstore, Salvador Pané Vidal presented Hong Kong by night (Témenos) XXVII Josep Fàbregas i Capell award. But in addition to Pons Alorda, who defined the book as “a chiaroscuro jewel and a genuine voice, the voice of a true ventriloquist with afflicted insides,” remembering that Pané is not only a poet, but he is also a musician, but how does he earn life is as a researcher in micro and nanorobotics in Zurich. Poems are also recited by Eduard Miró, Marta Pérez Sierra, Carles Duarte and Rosa M. Arrazola, and the actor Ignasi Guasch. There is also Eduard Sanahuja, who repeats...
On Thursday we returned to the poems, now at the Calders bookstore, where Lluís Calvo presents the book by Anna Enrich Paüra (LaBreu), who recites them accompanied by the electric guitar of Adrià González. Calvo talks about angels and fairies, the dislocation of language, myth, epic, magic, snakes and spiders and how “pure reality is a mystery.” Like last Sunday, there are also the editor Ester Andorrà and the total poetic fans Núria Isanda and Ferran Garcia. Enrich reads and we also hear the angels and the fear, the dread, which is there so that perhaps we do not have it. Because perhaps, as the poet says, we have to accept the mystery.
Catalan version, here
