The nationalist monster is, at least for the time being, the only poetic result of Ignazio Aiestaran. Monster. We do not yet know whether it is a living being that has been constituted outside the laws of nature, or a person with great intellectual activity and ability to act. But the monster. How? As if it were nothing else, “that monster that I am carrying”: the one who has registered in Franco’s identity documents, the one who loves the Basque, the one who has no future, the one who cannot claim rights on the street and the one who has been condemned to criticize all the street struggles. “That monstrosity we all carry within.” And nationalist. “Even if it is not nationalistic.” In other words: “I am Abertzale,/ from this corner of the earth/ moon/ how it looks/ like/ be Abertzale.” It can also be said: Spanish among the French, Basco among the Spanish, Navarro among the Basques, Vulture among the Navarros, etc.
Not only what monster and why patriot. There are also more questions: What is the people? “Something we all understand and no one can define.” What am I? –“Ignorant among omniscients/dead among living.” If Christ had been born here: God would have said that he was not his son. And when there are no questions, the sentence is the one that goes right to the stomach: the complainant - “the democracy of the ballot boxes/ is as fragile as the crystal box” - the ecologist – now that we are vascones/in principle because we were of forest” - the citizen – “The national construction: The “Guggenheim Museum”, which always highlights our misery –“21 are/ in 1987 were killed by a bomb in the hypermarket of Barcelona/ 21 people like you and me” –. Some poems, it's true, of a good idea, which talks about the Itoiz reservoir: “The one who brings water/bears gold”–, perhaps they do not have enough development or are left in a simple set of words: “Instead of achieving sovereignty, we will have the headway.” But in general, and despite the few years that have passed, it is a collection that has lost nothing current.
And if the book were there, it wouldn't be a little. But no, it has a second part, the epilogue. “Continuing with reading in mind” by Joxe Azurmendi. “Poetry is not going to rebuild the house that is in the pieces. However, it will make our destiny more bearable.” About universality, difference, nongality, miscegenation, political conflict, poetry – “A poet is one who disguises over and over again”. In short, Azurmendi, at best. It can therefore be said that there are only two books. Before concluding, however, the last Azurmendi Council is as follows: “In an abnormal world in which norm has been declared, let us be a monster.”
Munstro abertzalea, Ignazio Aiestaran. Elkar, 2003
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