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Hola buenos dias a todos
It is time for some Spanish reading
I am going to read from Libro de Poemas
from Federico Garcia Lorca
He was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director
If you want to read more about him, check the link in the description
And if you want to read the whole book, it's in public domain, there's a link in the description as well.
I am going to read from his Libro De Poemas
and this is his introduction as a poet. Bare with me with the translation as obviously my English is not like Federico's Spanish, duh
POETIC
But
What I am going to say about poetry?
What am I going to say about those clouds?
About that sky
Look
Look
Look at them, look at it
and nothing else.
You will understand that a poet is not able to say one thing about poetry.
Leave that to the critics and teachers
But not (neither) you, not I
not one single poet, know what poetry is.
Here it is, look
I have the fire in my hands
I understand it and work with it perfectly
but I can't talk about it without literature.
I understand all forms of poetry
I could talk about them if I wouldn't change my mind every 5 minutes.
I don't know, maybe one day I will like bad poetry, a lot.
Just like I (we) like bad music like crazy these days.
see image above
During my conferences, I have talked about Poetry sometimes.
But the only thing I can't talk about is MY poetry
Not because I don't know what I am doing, on the contrary.
If it's true that I am a poet thanks to God, or the devil.
then also thanks to technique and effort,
and to realize at all
what a poem is
Words of justification
I offer in this book, all juvenile burning / fire, torture
and unmeasured ambition
the exact image of my teenager years and youth
Those days that relay today's moments with my recent infancy
In these pages with no order
is the loyal (true) reflection of my heart
and of my longings, painted with the hue that will (be) borrow(ed),
when in possession,
(from) the thrilling life around (me)
newborn, for my glance.
The birth of each of these poetries that you have in your hand, reader, unites.
At the same birth of a new outbreak of the musical tree in my flowering life (Federico, I'll have what you are having)
I got lost here :/ - Ruindad = evil - menospreciar = look down on
this piece that is so much linked / attached to my own life
Above its incorrectness, above its limits
surely this book will have the virtue
between others I am warning about
(the virtue ) to remind me at all times of my passionated infancy,
running around naked on the prairies of a meadow
with on the background, the view
of a mountain range ....
Ok so this was Federico Garcia Lorca
Introduction to his book 'POEMS'
TRIED TO GET A DECENT TRANSLATIONT THERE GUYS I HOPE YOU LIKE IT