Pause
The collection of poems just published by Angel Erro (Burlata, 1978) is a kind of anthology of failed projects or shipwrecks. The title itself draws attention: A book of poems – instructions for reading – (Erein, 2022). At the end of the book, the reader will be asked about its reading, as these instructions do not specify, among other aspects, the time required to observe the image on the front page, sufficient silence or the need to do so aloud. However, it seems that the issue of entrepreneurship and poems offer the opportunity to form.
The municipality has gathered 41 poems in this field, the third of its history. Although this is not a strict guide, these pages are an invitation to poetry and literature: literary forms and resources are explicitly presented and materialized, other artistic manifestations approach the words and the paths of reformulation and reinterpretation are explored, shortening distances with places and times already distant. It is proposed to maintain and not give up the pause or moment that poetry offers, in short, as an inescapable step.
Other issues that the book brings us are the numerous poems centered on love. In addition to those addressed to the use of the second person, who seems to be an exhausting sin of poets, and to what is called “affection”, there are lines that reflect on one’s own love, among them the poem Inca maitasuna. Also highlighted are those addressed to the mother. Love is linked to pain in poems, to grief, to the outbreak, to memory and to oblivion: “Mom, I do things everyday so you are not dead (…) / and I started in secret / what I have left of life”. Among them is the poem Variations of Pain, as the hard is a reflection of the possibilities offered by poetic writing to express the beautiful.
Below you can read the 41 poems. However, the collection does not inevitably require this type of readings: in the absence of a thread, it can be read back, at the will of the reader, in the attempt to obey the refrain, rhythm and ritual and find peace in the shipwrecks itself.
PLEIBAK
Miren Amuriza Plaza
Susa, 2024
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Susa has published Miren Amuriza's second novel in the atrium of the Durango Fair: Plead. It's plebiscites because you're singing about an earlier recording. Berria includes the... [+]
Book Non sense
Edward Lear
Translation: Juan Kruz Igerabide
Denonartean, 2024
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The writer and illustrator Edward Lear published this work in 1846. As Igerabide says in the prologue of the book, “nonsense humor, absurd... [+]
Hetero
Uxue Alberdi
Susa, 2024
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In the era of negationism, the manosphere and trolls, the contribution of literature is essential, because it is an exceptional instrument to look at the folds of reality: the situations... [+]
Guardasola wants rain
Patxi Zubizarreta
Illustrations: Irrimarra
Ibaizabal, 2024
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30 years ago Patxi Zubizarreta published the book Marigoringoak hegan; J. M. Illustrated by Lavarello and by the hand of the Catalan publisher... [+]
Eyes on the horizon
Writer: Illustrator Miren Agur
Meabe: Ane Pikaza
Elkar, 2020
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Miren Agur Meabe has published several texts and books. He's worked with all the literary genres: children's and youth literature,... [+]
Barrengaizto
Beatrice Salvioni (Translation:
deceit Fernando Rey)
Txalaparta, 2024
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Fernando Rey has chosen the title of Barrizto to translate La malnata de Beatrice Salvioni. King says he has tried to be the voice of the... [+]
PELLOKERIAK
Ruben Ruiz
Illustrations: Joseba Beramendi, exprai.
Elkar, 2022
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Rubén Ruiz offers a new work of short stories. They are not micronarratives, because the stories, although they can be read independently, have a... [+]
Memet
Noemie Marsily and Isabella
Cieli For Centos, 2022
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We opened the zipper of the camping in red and looked through the leek along with Lucy. With this cover, the reader receives the comic book Memet. Simple words... [+]
A Heart Museum
Leire Vargas
Elkar, 2024
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The Basque cultural system has a thirst for young people. That's what Leire Vargas said in the written column in Berria. The industry is looking for fresh, varied and diverse... [+]
What you love. Word recall, live reading
Miren Billelabeitia
Pamiela, 2022
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Miren Billelabeitia has been a professor at the institute, a literary aficionado and a professor of Universal Literature for years. In 2022 he... [+]
Snarka Lewis Carroll
Hunting
Images:
Translation and Edition of Henry Holiday:Manu LÓpez Gaseni
Pamiela, 2024
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The work we have before us was published in the spring. After the works of Alice in Wonderland,... [+]
Lighting
Miriam Luki
Susa, 2023
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Translations
Miren Agur Meabe
Elkar, 2023
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Last year, Miren Agur Meabe published the novel Itzulerak. As the main characters are young people, we could say that it is juvenile literature, but when literature is good, it is for... [+]
Text:
Ilan Brenman
Illustrations: Guilherme Karsten
translation: In Alkain
Denonartean, 2024
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At the end of this album is a quote from Benjamin Franklin: “There has never been a good war, nor a bad peace.” And... [+]
Pozo
Goiatz Labandibar
Erein, 2024
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The Pozo de Goiatz Labandibarren is a growth novel that takes place one day: the descent of menstruation. Or in other words, a hero's journey, why not.
As often happens in this... [+]