In literature, especially poetry, retrospection is a constant. I’m not just talking about finding the subject or the way of approaching the subject, I’m also talking about returning to the origins of creation. Many writers travel to the past and reinvent themselves. I don’t know if time travel exists, but this is one way to do it. When a poet reviews his work, he returns to that primordial spark that produced fire, for creation is a white-hot fire that never goes out. It is true that with time the fire diminishes and only embers remain to be cared for and cared for, but it is the poet’s duty to keep the flame alive.
Time and seed. Juan Ramón Torregrosa’s Poetry Anthology 2013-1975, with an introduction by Ángel Luis Prieto de Paula, published by the Eda publishing house, takes us into the work and life of Juan Ramón. Compiled backwards like a countdown, this volume presents some of the works of the writer from Guardamar del Segura, from past to present. The first poem, Truth and Memory, which opens the poetry collection titled Cancela insomne, may be the summary of the anthology: “In this my truth is against yours / I affirm myself, I doubt, I torment myself. // This is in my truth, which is also yours, / I contradict myself, I betray you. // But this, / my fragile memory, / is the only truth / that my words can offer you / save from oblivion.
Like almost all poets, Torregrosa’s poetry began as an experience. There is no dhikr in youth. Sometimes some poets create false memories to get a feeling that was not experienced; This is not the case with Juan Ramón. Despite his dreaminess, his poems touch the earth and the skin very much. The poem titled As the pain continues is an example of this: “While the pain continues / of the disgraced, our bodies / learned to seek each other. // In the cinemas and the subway, / in the classrooms, / in shock / on the street, they looked for each other. // Like wandering autumn leaves, / our bodies / examined each other. // To live was to discover / what was rejected; / our bodies knew it / and they were found. There is a lot of memory in Juan Ramón’s poems. We are before a poet who reminds us of the meaning of life and its light and shadows. If I had to describe the poetry of the Guardamar poet, it would be the poetry of the walker of life who buries himself in the ground, because he not only thinks, he lives, which is what really matters.
We are faced with a work that we can call necessary. Time and seed are the summary of a writer anchored in life. There is a lot of experience in his poetry and not only that, he knows how to make the most of it instantly and shows us his vision of the world, which is clearly the love of life. This love of life and its gifts are shown to us in the poem titled Moans: “You groan with the power of the world’s oldest sounds, / when words have no form, / when only virgin echoes fill the valleys / and “The water of the oceans has fallen asleep with the same abandonment of yours.” But it is just as it is. not a poet. Juan Ramón Torregrosa is also a poet of what could have been. Because the worst memory in life is the one that could not have been. We all tend to have memories of things we left half-way or did not start. Herein lies the real mystery of poetry, the re-enactment of the unsaid, giving voice to the silences of time. Juan Ramón already says this in the poem that opens his poetry collection titled Mirror Portrait: “Before time dies on my arms, I want to leave a true testimony of what I was and what I could not be and what I hope for. ”
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