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Alianza y condena

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A splash of sea foam. A sly sparrow. A man dodging the rain. From such mundane, unexpected moments, Spanish poet Claudio Rodríguez crafted his 1965 Alliance and Condemnation, a collection of poems that temper the joy of existence—the “bounty that turns my flawed breath into prayer”—with a questioning of empirical reality. In these pages are poems of love and hate, contrition and forgiveness, and the joys of sorrow and existence. Many of the poems are essentially parables that seem to address the immediacy of the world yet point beyond it toward philosophical and eternal values. The result is a conjoining of the real and the ideal, a frequent theme in Spanish literature. Many of these poems bridge the distance between the Spanish mystics, among them Saint John of the Cross and Saint Teresa, and the nature poetry of romanticism.

Of all his creations, the radiant poems in Alliance and Condemnation offer the best imaginable introduction to his extraordinary life and work.

98 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1965

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March 19, 2024
Enormemente sorprendido, me encuentro, tras leer este poemario tan bello. Siempre pensé que la poesía sin métrica o rima, en español por lo menos, no era muy profunda o no alcanzaba la misma altura que la antes nombrada.
¡Me alegra equivocarme!
Este autor ha sido todo un hallazgo. Alcanza en esta obra una expresividad como nunca creí posible.
Al parecer no es muy leído, y es una lastima, porque es una joya inigualable dentro de la poesía.

Gracias, Claudio Rodríguez, por escribir semejante poesía.

---Relectura 08/03/2024---
En una segunda relectura, descubro que el uso, casi excelso, del ritmo poético, por momentos juega en contra de lo que intenta plasmar el autor. No es el caso de todos los poemas, pero en muchos, se nota que al tratar de mantener el ritmo, termina disipando el efecto que el poema venía logrando.
Es algo a tener en cuenta.
Aún después de mucho tiempo, no encuentro poesía en mi lengua que me deje satisfecho del todo.
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