Rebecca Palacios
Logroño, (EFE).- The poet Amalia Bautista has rejected the popular belief that poetry is a literary genre reserved only “for connoisseurs”, because, as she has assured EFE, “you can write verses with absolute clarity, with a language accessible to all readers.
Bautista (Madrid, 1962) has closed this Saturday in Logroño the 25 Conference of Poetry in Spanish “Verso”, with a recital in which he has read some of his poems, written with a very colloquial language, accessible to all audiences.
This writer and journalist has opined that “dark poets have a lot of responsibility in that poetry does not have as many readers as other genres” and that it has “the itch” of being something in the minority and that it requires some erudition.
“Poetry can and should be understood. There are poets who are understood very well and very clearly, such as Luis Alberto de Cuenca, who participated in these conferences on Monday the 17th, the Mexican Rosario Castellanos or the Polish Nobel Prize winner Wisława Szymborska”, he added.
But you can also read Lope de Vega, “who is perfectly understood”, added the author of the books Cárcel de amor, Cuéntamelo otra vez and Hilos de seda, among others.
In his opinion, youth is a public more inclined towards poetry, both as a reader and as a poet, but as one advances towards maturity, those habits are abandoned.
“In adolescence, when you are more against the grain with life, it is when you ask yourself more questions and because you feel a little more lost. Writing poetry can be a way out for all those things that we have in our heads”, this writer has reflected.
the three wounds
She has recognized that, over the years, her work has evolved like herself, “because poetry has become more and more contaminated with life and what one writes is more and more like what one lives.”
Like all the poems that have been written in the world “since the beginning of time”, he has recognized that his work brings together the three wounds: love, life and death.
“Those are the three great themes, with their fringes and derivations. Everything we write has to do with one of those three wounds or with all three”, he has confirmed.
Bautista, who had already participated in previous editions of the Spanish Poetry Sessions, organized by the Logroño City Council, considered it “quite an achievement” that they have remained on the city’s spring cultural calendar for a quarter of a century.
normalize equality
As the only woman in this edition, she has indicated that she writes “with total independence”, without thinking about her audience, because she defends that “there is no poetry for men and poetry for women”.
“What I would like is that this equality, both in the number, as well as the names and in the readings that poetry readers choose, were more and more normalized,” he opined.
For this author, “the new literary generations are made up mostly of women and there are many young people who are writing”, so she has hoped that this situation “will vary from now to very little” time.
In her recitals, which she never prepares and reads randomly chosen poems, she “always” receives “a lot of love and support” from her readers, which, for her, is “very satisfying.”