Fuente: Atención San Miguel
Echoes of the past in Sala Quetzal
Por María García Esperón
Mexico and Spain are two parts of the same entity to the Asturian writer and researcher Fernando Álvarez Balbuena (Gijón 1933). It is by means of this longing for rejoining the two fragments on which his latest poetic work is constructed that the soirée Ecos de ayer will take place in the Sala Quetzal of La Biblioteca Pública of San Miguel de Allende.
This anthology of poems, accompanied by a CD wrought by the poetic ensemble “La Caravana del Verso”, directed by the Asturian cultural promoter Joaquín de la Buelga, was released in Avilés, in February 2013, and now arrives to our country through the gates of this beautiful city with the appropriate moniker of “the heart of Mexico”.
It is precisely this heart whither those echoes of Fernando arrive, a space of his imperfect preterit, elegancy of his verses. Slow and scrumptious flowing of memory’s sands, time blossoming with Antonio Machado, a glimmer of light suspended between the branches of the trees.
All of this compressed into the colossal instant of his lines, every single yesterday, and its respective tomorrow, every love, every mystery. The past finds in his poetry a reason, an explanation; One that breathes, bleeds, and lives, and finally one that compels us to gather in the Sala Quetzal of Mexico’s heart, without distance between us, nor empty spaces, to in its name, propitiate Beauty itself.
This event will take place on Wednesday the 16th of April at 6 PM at the Sala Quetzal in La Biblioteca Pública. The Mexican author María García Esperón, and the spokeslady for the Centro Español de Queretaro, Arlene Nájera, are to host.
In addition, the young pianist, Ian Iracheta will play pieces by Bach, Beethoven, and Ponce, which will be interwoven with the poetry.
Free admittance.
Mexico and Spain are two parts of the same entity to the Asturian writer and researcher Fernando Álvarez Balbuena (Gijón 1933). It is by means of this longing for rejoining the two fragments on which his latest poetic work is constructed that the soirée Ecos de ayer will take place in the Sala Quetzal of La Biblioteca Pública of San Miguel de Allende.
This anthology of poems, accompanied by a CD wrought by the poetic ensemble “La Caravana del Verso”, directed by the Asturian cultural promoter Joaquín de la Buelga, was released in Avilés, in February 2013, and now arrives to our country through the gates of this beautiful city with the appropriate moniker of “the heart of Mexico”.
It is precisely this heart whither those echoes of Fernando arrive, a space of his imperfect preterit, elegancy of his verses. Slow and scrumptious flowing of memory’s sands, time blossoming with Antonio Machado, a glimmer of light suspended between the branches of the trees.
All of this compressed into the colossal instant of his lines, every single yesterday, and its respective tomorrow, every love, every mystery. The past finds in his poetry a reason, an explanation; One that breathes, bleeds, and lives, and finally one that compels us to gather in the Sala Quetzal of Mexico’s heart, without distance between us, nor empty spaces, to in its name, propitiate Beauty itself.
This event will take place on Wednesday the 16th of April at 6 PM at the Sala Quetzal in La Biblioteca Pública. The Mexican author María García Esperón, and the spokeslady for the Centro Español de Queretaro, Arlene Nájera, are to host.
In addition, the young pianist, Ian Iracheta will play pieces by Bach, Beethoven, and Ponce, which will be interwoven with the poetry.
Free admittance.
Ecos de ayer en la Sala Quetzal
Por María García EsperónPara el investigador y escritor asturiano Fernando Álvarez Balbuena (Gijón, 1933), México y España son una unidad. Es desde esta vocación de reencuentro que se presentará en la Sala Quetzal de la Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende su más reciente producción poética: Ecos de ayer.
El poemario, acompañado por un disco compacto realizado por la compañía “La Caravana del Verso”, que dirige el promotor cultural asturiano Joaquín de la Buelga, fue lanzado en Avilés, en febrero de 2014 y ahora llega a nuestro país por la puerta de esta ciudad que ha sido llamada en toda justicia “corazón de México”.
Y es precisamente al corazón donde arriban los Ecos de Fernando, espacio de su pretérito imperfecto, elegancia de su verso. Lento y deleitable transcurrir de arenas memoriosas, tiempo en fruto como el de Antonio Machado, luz sutil suspendida entre las ramas de los árboles.
Todo cabe en el instante bruñido de su verso, todo ayer, todo mañana, todo amor, todo misterio. El pasado encuentra en sus poemas un sentido pleno, que respira, que vive, que sueña y que nos ha de reunir en la Sala Quetzal del corazón de México, sin separaciones ni distancias, para saludar en su nombre a la belleza.
La cita con la poesía de Fernando Álvarez Balbuena es el miércoles 16 de abril a las 6 PM en la Sala Quetzal de la Biblioteca Pública. La presentación corre a cargo de la escritora mexicana María García Esperón y de Arlene Nájera, representante del Centro Español de Querétaro. Piezas de Bach, Beethoven, Chopin y Ponce serán interpretadas por el joven pianista Ian Iracheta. La entrada es libre.
