What is poetry?
"If that question is simple my left ear is the zoo. Nobody knows what poetry is distinguished by the approximations. A poet said that was the way of forcing God to speak. A Mexican poet Jose Emilio Pacheco, said he is the shadow of memory. That is, there are thousands of definitions, precisely because it is absolutely indefinable. I could propose one: Poetry is a leafless tree that gives shade. "
(...)" I prefer poetry to the committed married. A poetry married to poesíaâ.
(...) "poetry has given the journalist a certain vision of the world. As one old newspaper Uruguayan province, the truth is the only goddess that men do not want to see naked. Moreover, truth has different faces and it is not easy to deal with it. The truth of poetry is different from the truth of journalism, or the kind of truths that have one or
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Juan Gelman
World Poetry Day
March 21
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Posted by Ruben Gomez for Vela al Viento Ediciones Patagónicas 3 / 21 / 2011 6:25:00 AM
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