Kitu palimpsest (Drug of Orange, 2009) by Diego Velasco Andrade is a book of poetry that moves us in the first part - Kitwe - an elegiac journey to the ancestral, where natural elements, characters and language form the substance of recognition and belonging from the geographical and cultural space. Here, in this assessment, the lyric voice is assumed to be chronicler
Quitumbe
Lay left in the Age of Drought
to dwell in the green flashes
a stone dropped from there as lightning
Quitumbe the powerful to overcome the high cone of the mountain
where
was frozen in the light of the constellations.
Driven
blazing sunshine on the hills
metal Quitumbe
mountain spotted a smooth plain near the clouds
KI-TO:
holy land middle
deposited there
of the Great Spirit Esmeralda
the mysterious Kingdom of the Hummingbirds.
antilírico The Quito (name of the second part, as significant and transgressive) is where the best known Velasco appears and expands. The lyric voice gives us a less glamorous version Quito: conquest, submission, rebellion, and fuck, fuck very intricate verses from the corrosive and worked from a mood that delves beyond the laughter, and that leads us to question the official story:
half QUITO LUZ DE AMERICA Madrugada
Quito manuela home
thousand eight hundred new
the heroes plan our dependence
Juan Pio
Montúfar Marquis
cheerful jungle does not say a peep until it goes wobbly
a
table and loudly proclaims: THE UNDERSIGNED
SOLANDER MARQUES DE MARQUES DE SELVA
FLORIDA
MARQUES DE SAN JOSÉ
MARQUES DE SELVA ALEGRE
ORELLANA VILLA MARQUES DE MARQUES DE MIRA
BISHOP FLORES MANUELA CUEROY
CAICEDO
CAÑIZARES AND OTHER PATRIOTS IN THIS PART OF THE POEM
DECLARE THAT SO SICK OF PAPERWORK WITH CROWN
HAVE SHAPED OUR RESOLVED
SOVEREIGN BOARD NOW THAT GOVERN THE BELOVED
AUDICIENCIA
CONCERN TO THE
mob threats and because GO! NO NOS
SHAPED CAKE WITH HALF
given in Quito early on August 10, 1809
HIC! Cesa
proclamation and soon proposes
The glorious army
arribafirmante Ahoramismo go to spend the count
Manuel Urries of so profitable ministry ...
TUM!
TUM!
Who is it?
"The old Agnes?
QUITO Sovereign's board
required Castilla Meal Count
tereques
and pick up your back with your music to matrópoli ... HIP!
and
explodes when the first cry of independence
?
In this poem just explodes
the first cry of Bishop Cuero y Caicedo
Manuelita's bedroom.
This unofficial document, emerged from the darkness of mood is uncommitted with regard ruling on their way, plays a role of scapegoat: be the culprit, who will head blown off by offender, but also to become full stop, unless the dispute issue (for some) and too issue (for many) what poetry can and does.
Finally in Quito Heritage, third and last part of the poetry book, civility above all, the city, its quirks and secrets are the main actors voices total:
PENALTY instantaneously
On Sunday
anywhere cage to yield good fidelity even
tamugo
absorbed or legs of a lady in red.
of these faces uncovered
on Sunday
nobody knows more than the "combo" that calls out
potatoes with chili
from one corner of the old house. The guards
sharpen the vest to any dislocated prison
and run payroll: Kleber
detonated his apiary on the tortured
the "Pikas" paid with a check up
the efforts of his shyster
"ñato Freddy"
tropics risked his aces in a sharp street
"crazy curvy" the black cook
prostituted their backsides
with capo Block A ...
who assigned this building collect
virtue
breathing so cramped?
must return to reveal rigorously
park photographer
these my "snapshots." Diego Velasco
Andrade (Quito, 1958) has succeeded beyond this successful work in the lyric Ecuadorian guide many of today's poetic voices and narratives of the country, has assumed the role courage and commitment to lead writing workshops and this for a writer (without self-interest by hindering all) is sufficient grounds for appropriate recognition.
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