there is no little love

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Professor Belmonte Serrano wouldn’t mind if ‘Paulina’ was his last book of poetry, because he has a lot to read and reread. Though he wouldn’t close the door to poetry, if it calls him again; if it happens i would buy her a wine and talk to her. We shall see. At the beginning of ‘Paulina’ (La Fea Burguesía, 2023) we find the man caught in the silence and desperation of non-working Sunday afternoons. On the canvas by Soto Alcón, he appears to be walking the dog on wet asphalt with an umbrella. However, that same person will twist his fate and his mind after the storm and, in an unexpected progression, will awaken in a world of joyful and evocative mysteries. At the crest of the wave of love, the emotional charge is always very intense. In ‘Paulina’, especially in the last two parts, ‘Aurea mediocritas’ and ‘Los días pasados’, which are closest to the present moment, very short verses touch the reader’s soul, as if we were on top of a live electrical line: brushes violent, very fast, unbearable for begging hearts. “We all have a long winter ahead of us. And it’s sadder without your music,” the poet thinks aloud. ‘Paulina’ opens a path in the same poetics of Belmonte Serrano, nourishing it with new faces, new landscapes and new references, such as that of Yorgos Seferis, from whom he saves these verses: «I have traveled, I have grown tired and I have written little, but I thought back a lot…». He gives prominence to the poet from Izmir, essayist and diplomat, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1963, who appeared almost by chance between kisses and champagne. In a sense, in ‘Paulina’, infested with the trail of bouncy foam, the reader can see in Belmonte himself that «young merchant who came from Sidon, unafraid of the wrath of fierce Poseidon», whom he pleases to watch in sunny Nicosia to a Turkish girl pruning a vine in a courtyard. Paulina, the real personification of that fatamorgana, is here the beautiful Ligia, or the divine Marcia, or all together, an illusion that makes the poet exclaim today: “Paulina, my dear: we are like two shooting stars in the middle of a universe dying out”. It is not surprising that she believes in miracles: ‘Paulina’, «gift of twilight», «with her face framed by millions of stars shining in the dark vault of the sky», she is. Hopefully this great story will continue to produce new poems, and that readers will be able to peek into their intimacy on future occasions, such as someone keeping an eye out or putting their ear to the door, to verify that the music is still ringing for both of us . of life. This book makes me think there is no small love.
Source: La Verdad

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