Verses that sprout between wheels and ditches

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Books. The Museo de los Molinos del Río will host the first presentation of “La huerta en haikus” this Friday at 7 p.m., published by the publishing house La Fea Burguesía

“I think about haikus all the time. When you start doing haikus, get excited and keep doing them, it’s like eating pipes: you start with one and you don’t stop. This is how Aurora Gil Bohórquez describes the art of writing this Japanese poetry, coordinator of the collective book ‘La huerta en haikus’ (La Fea Burguesía, 2022), which will be published this Friday, in Los Molinos del Río, at 7 p.m. first presented after posting.

Haiku is a type of short 17-syllable poetry whose structure consists of three lines of five, seven and five syllables respectively. It does not rhyme and tries to capture an emotion or feeling from the blink of an eye – in this case of nature. It usually deals with the present, with the absence of the “I”, nor does it contain many lexical or poetic figures: it is in its simplicity and brevity that the difficulty of writing it is found.

“It’s not a sunflower,

but the lemon deserves

being a Van Gogh»

Jose Angel Castillo

“How embarrassing!

hot flash relief

the lemonade”

Aurora Gil Bohorquez

«Green Autumn»

lemons from my guts

tantalizing perfumes»

lol grace

The 37 haijines (as the authors of this kind of poetry are called), including Soren Peñalver, Carmen Martínez Marín, José Luis Aguayo, Vicente Cervera, Lola Gracia, Teresa Vicente, Ángeles Carnacea or ​​José Ángel Castillo Vicente, come together in this edition. Not all of them come from the Murcia region. “I think it enriches the book that authors drawn to Murcia participate in,” said María José Villarroya, author of the photos.

There are Haijin associations all over Spain and they actively cooperate with each other. “In Murcia there is a group of haiku fans, we get together from time to time and come up with an idea, and when we have a worthy corpus of haiku, we decide to publish it,” explains Gil Bohórquez. All these poems culminate in a joint publication. A way of spreading poetry, in this case about the garden, through the eyes of different people writing haikus about the same moment.

The book is a vision of the garden in 17 photos that stop time in a moment: the gate, the hoe, the pomegranate, the palm tree, the ditch, the rose, the mill… It is not a random number, because corresponds to the number of syllables in a haiku. “The same event and moment can be interpreted differently,” says the bundle coordinator. Each haijin gives it an imprint, a meaning and an emotion.

«The crillas are growing

earth miracle

in the fall”

Jose Luis Aguayo

“Green is your being,

path of paths,

fruitful and faithful”

Vincent Cervera

“Our orchards

write in lines

of fertile soil»

Gil-purge

Nor is the number of poems found per image by chance: 17. Nor is the number of pages on which they are scattered: five on one page, seven on the next, and five on the other.

Both this book and the book that appeared a year ago (‘Murcia a vista de haiku’) were created in 2019. In March of that year, a workshop on haiku, organized by the poet Manuel Lara Cantizani, took place at the Fundación Trinitario Casanova. It was then that Lara suggested that those in attendance write a book, containing 17 images of New York. That idea never saw the light of day due to Cantizani’s passing in 2020.

“It was then that we decided we could do it in Murcia,” recalls Villarroya. And not only did they publish a book, but they did the second in record time: «Aurora and I met in February, and then we called up the participants from the previous one and some new ones who had joined». Villarroya, fascinated by the passing of the seasons, already had hundreds of photos in her camera. I only had to select 17 of them.

The project is literary, but also very vindictive. «At a time when we attach importance to climate change, I think it is essential that citizens know the cultural value of all ditches: where there are ditches, there are trees, the temperatures are dropping, there are beautiful landscapes and there is a diversity of animals, » , says the author of the snapshots.

Haijines is considering publishing a third volume if the publisher gives the green light. “The first thing that was discussed was to do it from the Mar Menor. But Easter is very photogenic, so we’ll see… », Villarroya departs in the air.

Source: La Verdad

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