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terça-feira, outubro 26, 2010

Garage Picasso: La crítica de arte como poesía

27 Septiembre, 2010 - 18:50

Edward Hopper es el autor de una de las obras más melancólicas del siglo XX.

Pintada en 1942, “Nighthawks” (o “Aves nocturnas”, como se le conoce en español) es la vista de una cafetería como las hay en cualquier ciudad de Estados Unidos. Mientras la noche cae sobre ella, la luz que irradia por su enorme ventanal se asemeja a un oasis.

La pintura, como todas las de su autor, puede leerse como un testimonio social de Estados Unidos en la era de su industrialización, el nacimiento de las grandes metrópolis, el advenimiento de la soledad urbana. Puede verse también como uno de los primeros acercamientos pictóricos al hiperrealismo y como el regreso del arte moderno (ya en proceso de volverse contemporáneo) a la narración.

O puede verse, como lo hace el poeta Mark Strand en su magnífico pequeño libro Hopper, como la creación de un espacio único que gracias a estrategias puramente pictóricas, visuales (no narrativas ni sociales) en el que quien mira puede entregarse a sin más a la melancolía.

Strand toma el camino más sencillo para hacer la complicadísima tarea de separar la obra de su contexto histórico. Cuadro por cuadro, sin orden cronológico ni técnico, de una manera muy intuitiva, Strand nos lleva por la obra de Hopper. Hay sutilezas geométricas en las figuras, cierta elección de colores, cierta universalidad de lo que nos dice cada cuadro. Strand nos hace notar cada detalle con una gran eficiencia, como podría esperarse de un poeta. En 100 páginas desmenuza prácticamente todas las obras conocidas de Hopper, no hay desperdicio.

De “Nighthawks” dice Strand: “Mirándolo nos quedamos suspendidos entre dos imperativos contradictorios: uno gobernado por el trapecio (que está la centro del cuadro), que nos apremia a seguir adelante, y el otro, dominado por la imagen de una cafetería en medio de la noche, un lugar seguro e iluminado en el que queremos permanecer”. De ahí, dice, la gran melancolía de la obra: debemos dejarla aunque nos invite a quedarnos. Es Hopper, para Strand, un filósofo del viaje. Cada escena retratada es una imagen que miramos al pasar, en la que no podemos intervenir aunque despierte nuestra curiosidad. “No podemos más que observar esos momentos privilegiados desde una respetuosa distancia”.

Hopper de Mark Strand es un libro imprescindible. Está disponible en español, con una muy buena traducción del crítico Juan Antonio Montiel, en el catálogo de editorial Lumen.

CREDITO:  Concepción Moreno/El Economista

FONTE: El Economista.com.mx

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domingo, outubro 24, 2010

Dodge Poetry Festival Features Pulitzer Winners, U.S. Poet Laureates

Kay Ryan (left) and Carol Adair, who also teaches English at the College of Marin, were married in a ceremony at San Francisco City Hall in 2004. (Provided by Kay Ryan)
Posted by Hannah Elliott

Bill Murray must be beside himself. Next week 24 poets including Kay Ryan, Billy Collins, Rita Dove, Mark Strand and the brothers Matthew and Michael Dickman will converge in Newark, N.J., for a poetry sampler of the highest order.

The 13th biennial Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival is the largest and most famous poetry event in North America. Organizers expect it to attract more than 20,000 people Oct. 7 – 10, plus 4,500 high-school students from 250 schools across the country.

Poets will lead discussions, readings and seminars at multiple locations in the Newark area, including main events at Prudential Hall.

If you don’t know the work of Kay Ryan or Billy Collins, you should. Ryan, the current U.S. Poet Laureate, writes frequently for The New Yorker and The Atlantic. She was named to Entertainment Weekly’s “It List” and even has a poem permanently inscribed at New York’s Central Park Zoo.

“Her poems are compact, exhilarating, strange affairs, like Erik Satie miniatures or Joseph Cornell boxes,” J. D. McClatchy told the Academy of America Poets. “She is an anomaly in today’s literary culture: As intense and elliptical as Dickinson, as buoyant and rueful as Frost.”

Collins, U.S. Poet Laureate from 2001 to 2003 and named “Poet of the Year” by Poetry Magazine in 1994, is perhaps most famous for his compilations The Art of Drowning and Questions About Angels. He writes for Harpers, The Paris Review, and The New Yorker.

The Dickman twins are a special treat, especially to younger poetry lovers. They grew up with little intellectual stimulation in a rough neighborhood in Portland, Ore., before Pablo Neruda (and a desire to bag girls) got them interested in poetry. A recent feature in The New Yorker called their work “an illustration of the distinctiveness of the imagination.”

“Michael’s poems are interior, fragmentary, and austere, often stripped down to single-word lines; they seethe with incipient violence,” Rebecca Mead wrote last April. “Matthew’s are effusive, ecstatic, and all-embracing, spilling over with pop-cultural references and exuberant carnality. Reading Michael is like stepping out of an overheated apartment building to be met, unexpectedly, by an exhilaratingly chill gust of wind; reading Matthew is like taking a deep, warm bath with a glass of wine balanced on the soap dish.”

The brothers will speak along with their mentors Dorianne Laux and Joseph Millar as part of the “Poets and Mentors” conversation at 2 p.m. this Saturday.

Other featured poets include Pulitzer Prize-winner and McArthur “Genius” Fellowship recipient Galway Kinnell (the 83-year-old will read in its entirety his definitive translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies, which event spokesperson Ilene Antelman compared to “Sir Laurence Olivier reading the Shakespeare soliloquies in his later years”), Amiri Baraka, Kwame Dawes, Bob Hicok, Martin Espada, Dunya Mikhail, and Joseph Millar. Bobby Sanabria & Quarteto Aché, a Latin jazz group, will also perform.

Tickets for the weekend cost $60, or $54 for seniors and $30 for students. A four-day pass costs $100 for general admission. Click here for more details.

Read more:

Bill Murray is Leading a Poetry Revolution
Baby Steps With Bill
Watch: Bill Murray’s Construction Worker Poetry Slam

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FONTE: Forbes (blog)

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FOTO: marinij.com