“Poetry is the immutability of time inside us”

For those who do not know the basics of this woman, who will turn 89 on November 30, it should not be forgotten that; Alicante Housewives and Consumers Association “Lucentum” title until 2016 music theory teacher and piano, his life cannot be understood without a firm and declared love of literature, and above all, to poetry, a genre he has developed with particular enthusiasm over the past two decades. There are some rewards obtained as a result of this. First Prize in the Númen Comunidad Valenciana Poetry Competition In 2016 and 2018 searches, but in 2011, after the publication of her first book, slices of a life –I will follow in 2017 intensity, and in 2022, melancholic bluethe third and last to date – when it was released.

Alicante author Mariano Sánchez Soler carmina seva they convey to us the “sincere and emotional sincerity of its author”. It is a gift for those of us who love life and try to pass this world on our shoulders”; a fact and a poem in the words of the poet and professor Joaquin Juan Penalva“It finds its motifs in our deepest lyrical tradition, so that poetry collections are built as authentic songbooks in which themes of love, the song of life, hope, pain and more come together in the world they are in”.

Writing poetry can be a healthy exercise and even a necessity. The other thing is to do it well and make the reader an ally and an accomplice. share emotional intensity, surprise and aesthetic harmony. This is undoubtedly the case of Carmina Seva, whose poems we discovered after a simple reading: a writer with a trained ear for music, a hand trained with rhythm, a heart driven by the mind, and a talent waiting to fly, probably because he was born prematurely, missed by the ups and downs of life for decades women are relegated to an unfair secondary roleto the daily administration and the indifferent title of the queens of the house.

Carmina knew how to pick out those remnants of life that one day nestled in her memory.fragments of existence that leave the imprint of the indestructible on them. And he knew how to choose them to prove all that he had lived, for writing is the immutability of time within us; It is the erosion of love and heartbreak, disappointment and hope, loneliness and melancholy, abundance and the compassion they exert. in our skin, in our flesh, in the deep grooves of the intestines.

Those lucky enough to know the author, and even laugh, smile, cry, walk, talk, hug, even argue with him, will be able to attest to him. human size, enormous working capacity, her empathy, her feminine flirtation, her love for herself and her endless love for others. What gets harder is getting to your soul, that corner where your own truth lives and few have the privilege to find. In his case, the only way to get to that secret room, as private and clear as a kerosene lamp, walking the aisles of your poetry. Because poetry is his domain, and night is, in his case, the best time of day to create. The great sense of harmony in the poem’s music, in all its fluctuations, served to drive out of our guts everything that offends us, hurts us, makes us happy, seduces us, makes us angry, or makes us fall in love.

We already know that comparisons are often unfair, often hateful, but in the verses melancholic blueThe book that Carmina Seva will sign at the Alicante Fair this Friday, there are many women whose words have sacrificed their lives, for example – always keeping the distance – Teresa of Jesus, In this case, a Teresa, free from habits and monasteries, more human than celestial, but in love as the moon, defending a woman’s right to be the captain of a ship, not a vase on the table, the dreams, life and adventures of the right soul.

Jose Luis Ferris

Writer and professor at UMH