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    A Brief Poesy, 1989-2004
    A Brief Poesy, 1989-2004
    A Brief Poesy, 1989-2004
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    A Brief Poesy, 1989-2004

    By Edel Romay

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    Edel Romay has been enriched by his travels and friendships with literary and plastic artists as well as intellectuals in Mexico, Europe, the United States and South America. His oeuvre literary and plastic has been influenced by great philosophers, poets and scientists. A Brief Poesy, 1989-2004 invites us to look into the relationship within the brain and the cosmos, the word with being, reality with time. In other words, he challenges us to reflect upon what Martin Heidegger once declared: Language is the dwelling of the being. Moreover, Edel proposes the idea that without an observer, reality does not exist. Similarly, Romay encourages the internal dialog between I and You that reflects upon itself to construct a true I the symbiosis that exists between reader and author within the same person. You are the other that creates and recreates me when I am read, because without a You there is no I and vice versa. This in turn leads us to ponder in what the poet Octavio Paz asserted: The eyes speak, words look, looks think.
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    PublisherPalibrio
    Release dateAug 15, 2013
    ISBN9781463361518
    A Brief Poesy, 1989-2004
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    Edel Romay

    Edel Romay nació en San Andrés Tuxtla, Veracruz, México. Estudió pedagogía en la Escuela Normal "Enríquez C. Rebsamen". En la Universidad, Veracruzana estudió arquitectura, artes plásticas, filosofía y matemáticas. En 1966, fijó su residencia legal en Berkeley, California, en los Estados Unidos (EE. UU.), donde obtuvo su licenciatura en la Universidad de California en Berkeley. La maestría en ciencias de la Universidad de Hayward. y el Ed.D. en la Universidad de San Francisco. Actualmente se encuentra retirado de su carrera docente. Sin embargo, ha retomado su pasión por las artes plásticas y la literatura. Edel es un intelectual de la mitología y la cosmología, un hombre de vasta cultura y de una imaginación excepcional. Ya sea como poeta, pintor, escultor, narrador o fotógrafo aficionado, su arte nos lleva a un mundo cuántico de la memoria onírica.

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      A Brief Poesy, 1989-2004 - Edel Romay

      Contents

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      BRIEF BUT NECESSARY NOTE

      PARADOXICAL CIRCUMSTANCES

      FROM a TO z

      AND BEYOND

      PROLOG

      a.

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      [ch].

      d.

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      f.

      g.

      h.

      i.

      j.

      k.

      l.

      [ll].

      m.

      n.

      ñ.

      o.

      p.

      q.

      r.

      [rr.]

      s.

      t.

      u.

      v.

      w.

      x.

      y.

      z.

      a.

      b.

      c.

      d.

      e.

      f.

      g.

      INTERMITENT LANDSCAPE

      MEANING

      POEMS OF THE SEA AND WIND

      PROLOGUE

      FROM 9INE TO ZERO

      THE a

      LISTENS TO THE SEA

      9INE

      8IGHT

      7EVEN

      6IX

      5IVE

      4OUR1

      3HREE

      2WO

      1NE

      Z ERO (S)

      THE MIRRORS EMIGRATE

      LEAVING

      ONLY IMAGES OF FOAM

      PASSERSBY

      TORRENTIAL

      OBSIDIAN SCULPTURE

      TWILIGHT

      WHEN NIGHT FALLS

      DWELLING

      WHISTLING WIND

      EDGE OF A SHATTERED GLASS

      THE LABYRINTH OF A CARACOLE

      GLASS MOON

      SOLITUDE

      RITUAL

      SCULPTURAL

      ABSENT

      I SING ALONE

      VARIANT

      ULTRAMARINA

      I REMEMBER THAT

      MIEL DE LUNA

      ROCAPARTIDA

      PRECOCIOUS LOVE

      THINKING

      SORTILEGE1

      I DISCOVER

      MOTHER:

      FATHER:

      INDEED! ARE YOU QUESTIONING ME?

      REFLECTIONS

      FROM THE MOUNTAIN VINO EL VINO1

      YOU DIDN’T KNOW?

      INSPIRATION

      IN 4OUR COORDINATES

      X

      Y

      Z

      Dedicated to—

      my beloved wife Anita now and forever…

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      I owe thanks to my good friend and colleague in letters, poet and author Roberto Perezdiaz¹ who skillfully translated my work.

      I am also deeply grateful to Marsha Sofia Polovets² for her skillful and painstaking editing of my manuscript.

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      ¹. Roberto Perezdiaz has studied at the University of California at Berkeley, El Colegio México, in Mexico City and Antioch University. Roberto Perezdiaz is a retired FCCI (Federal Certified Court Interpreter) after 26 plus years working in the US district Court in El Paso, Texas.

      ². Marsha Sofia Polovets holds a B.A. in political Economy from the University of California at Berkeley. Her senior thesis explored the identity of Jewish Argentine women. She was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia. She speaks Russian, English and Spanish and is an avid reader of Spanish literature. Marsha is excited to continue learning, challenging herself, and hopefully doing some good in this world.

      —About that supernova that, at the right moment, excites us all in the same way.

      —I imagine you’re talking about love.

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      Mamá Ramona

      BRIEF BUT NECESSARY NOTE

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      As long as the brain is a mystery

      the universe will continue to be a mystery.

      —Santiago Ramón y Cajal

      Childhood is that space in your memory when somehow the idea of the universe begins to unfold. It’s the age where the whys start becoming the key to curiosity that later will be opening the door to knowledge. That’s to say, to know is to understand, and I halfway knew that big things coexisted with little ones in that universe I was barely beginning to decipher. It so happened that one day my grandmother, whom I called Mamá Ramona, forbade me to drink water from the faucet. «Why? », I asked, the water looks clear and clean. Mamá Ramona, with her characteristic sweetness, taking me by the hand told me, «In that water proliferate tiny little bugs that at first glance you can’t see, but if you drink, it will make you sick to your stomach». At that moment, I understood why we drank from the water jug. My grandmother lifted my chin and smiled, «You’re a little brat», she told me, pretending to be angry.

      In that gigantic house with very long hallways and monumental arches emerged enormous pieces of furniture that, like faithful sentinels, portrayed their antiquity with elegant dignity. For me, of all that, the most familiar was the enormous sofa that stood near a coffee table where Mamá Ramona and I used to talk, while she took her customary coffee at five in the afternoon. A habit she began with her husband Gabriel, who unfortunately was executed in 1910; a habit that somehow now she carries on with me. But, before I continue, let me pause to

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