The greatest discovery of the teenager Dana Gelinas, daughter of American father and Mexican mother, was that I could write about almost anything, that everything is transcendent to the extent that the poet achieved transgress appearances see beyond. Even then he loved to write with pencils dangerously sharp, alternating graphite and rubber to get something close to perfection, or his unorthodox conception of it, possessed since childhood habit, instilled by her grandmother, to seize the role to the fullest. Originally from a town where everything is Altos Hornos, title of his latest book (Praxis, 2006), Dana grew up in the shadow of a sky smeared with soot, ash made, forty degrees on the pavement, while landscape seems to have turned his back to poetry (at least for those who lack imagination), fecundaría to one of Mexico's most original poets: "As a teenager, says the poet, opening further its large green eyes, ash-colored curls shaking, thought he needed to live in a certain city, under very special circumstances, and live special. "
Dana, for whom poetry is a profession like any other requires rigor and discipline says not to use the inspiration that seems more spontaneous, "poems that come from somewhere unknown", while the concentration, though unconscious, too, is something long sought a conquest, a furnace of words: "I prefer not writing separate from other human occupations and professions, where there are moments of great concentration, even whole days of a concentration immense, also from the sheer effort. "This explains why the poetry of Dana Gelinas, is so specific, so close, so far from the aesthetic ideal, and yet so frighteningly close to beauty. His eyes were so sensitive to mourn the incomprehensible heinous acts of this world, it also explains his desire for transformation.
Born in Monclova, Coahuila, on March 25, 1962, Dana Gelinas was a landmark in the very prestigious award Aguascalientes, which won in 2006 with the book Boxers (Joaquín Mortiz / INBA, 2006), which develops more accurately vein discovered in his first book, Under a sky of lime (Fondo Editorial Tierra Adentro, 1991) and where, the poet's own words, "I began a search of all that time I thought nothing poetic." Impressionist poet, strongly influenced by Ernst Stadler, Georg Heym, also by Anna Akhmatova, Boxers is the apotheosis of art to contemplate and reflect on everyday life, in spite of daily life, with substantial early hint of irony in the book winner Tijuana National Poetry 2004, Polyester (Municipal Institute of Arts and Culture, 2004), which allows small poetic portrait of Bill Gates, whom no one would stop to see how a child alone: \u200b\u200b"The boy Bill Gates has eyes translucent / and sharp teeth (...) Invent parallel universes / network for the planet / and a network for network / in case. "(" The Boy Bill Gates ", p. 13). An act that seems so commonplace as going shopping, is transformed into Boxers in a climb to the paradise of lingerie that sooner or later lead to the purgatory of Credit and Collection, inspired by Dante and Francois Villon, "do not know how (Villon) did not die of laughter when drafting your Will. I think, and I know I read the Inferno of Dante (Paradise do not remember much), somehow, not that tone of voice should not those same people, but we have the same hobby to insist on putting people in separate sites, sometimes as joking ... "He says
also been inspired in a scene from Chaplin, which is trapped along with his beloved hungry in a large empty warehouse where they slide together like ice skaters. Wandering around a department store in the heart of San Valentín, while you think of "the ventricles of the heart, the poet gives the challenge to sublimate the typical middle-class frivolity, extol the beauty ideal of the dummies and probing the philosophical involves the trinkets or the need to own them and show them off, even more complex. Advertising fills our lives, Dana seems to be saying is there, without even looking, invasive, everyday. A exercise which in itself requires the use of humor, contrary to canon purist who can not conceive of the poem emerges autoneg laughter, tears of laughter: "(...) and I give a damn metaphor / any rhyme unintentional / measured verse , / in fact, the art and science / horn I care, nor distracted me the satellite / phone / the weather ... "(" David Beckham ", p. 32). Dana
Boxers ran the risk of being misunderstood by emphasizing the prejudices that women's status generated, although, as noted above, the emphasis on the supposed nature of the woman consumer leads to irony and, therefore, in evidence of the stereotype, widely used in narrative action, particularly that written by women, but rarely, rarely, in poetry. His speech loving, highly sophisticated, minimalist is not, as in polyester, other than the vehicle for the manifestation of a strong social conscience, even feminist. Articles-bait in the poet encourage a reflection about the social and gender bias, overlapping the consumption habits (his own voice, as mentioned, represents the very object of prejudice, which leads to a strong critical and ideological and therefore political): "I think no man know / what it means / wear sneakers glass. / There are two torture / dos curses / two glass pedestals / are a kind of security / go to hell. "(" Italian Shoes ", p. 45). That's right: the poet ostensibly out around the Appliances department because "it gives me a headache." Nor does it include the Department of Whites, "The real culprits that have left out the issue of bed sentimental eroticism is so connected to the ardent desire of consumption." Dana brings a genuine poetry in advance almost overwhelmed by the established notion of "poetry" poetry negating stereotypes and archetypes as seen in the first interview that was done to Following the acquisition of Aguascalientes, where the reader confesses: "everything", even and especially the significant silences: "I think poetry is primarily a reading of the things that have not yet been said, that still silent. "
Altos Hornos The muted contrasts with the bustle of Boxers:" I do not know if it was one of those afternoons of dust when I discovered my vocation as a poet, recalls Dana, under a twilight sulfur, maroon, when almost I almost convinced myself that I should write about what was beautiful, sea or very green, and angry ... "In Altos Hornos introduces us to the different areas you are so familiar, their own home and the factory where steel is forged, and establishes a kind of symbiosis between this and the forging of a conscious creative, artistic, "My eyes became lost in the gym complex / wave expansive / hitting retina and brain / to be silent witnesses to the creation of steel. / All this is real, burst, / how the hell you call / write about things that do not exist? "(p. 14). Along with the social-creative consciousness awakening political consciousness, the poet is fascinated by the possibility that those furnaces emergence of a solid fusion of all colors (blue oxide, violent purple), a specific act of creation, not reflected or premeditated like the poetry. But it also assumes that there are committed injustices that men and women die in fulfilling a duty low-paid factory orphans and misery alleviated, "When I saw the women of Kuwait / hold your nose black veil over your mouth for between wells incinerantes / a workers in their home, / I remembered the handkerchief on my nose, / scented fabric softener / oxygen and / until a wisp of nothing, or gravity alone, / sulfur molecules disappeared / that they had entered the house. "(p. 18). Among the sulfur molecules that slip in his books, Dana provides a world that is making its own recreated, filtering slowly through your veins, until it became absolute, language. Again, his pulse pounding the shore to bring the ugliness and cruelty to the aesthetics of poetry, to rise above the words, holding the reins with the same firmness with which subjects to combine beauty and irony.
Dana Gelinas has also been characterized as a translator of great poets like the American Pulitzer, WD Snodgrass (The needle of the heart, bilingual edition, Editorial Aldus, Mexico, 1999), a poet very discursive, unlike her, but as Dana, very visual. He currently lives in Mexico City with her husband, also Héctor Carreto Aguascalientes Award, and two daughters. Write a story book for children, "I get up early and think of a children's story."
Dana, for whom poetry is a profession like any other requires rigor and discipline says not to use the inspiration that seems more spontaneous, "poems that come from somewhere unknown", while the concentration, though unconscious, too, is something long sought a conquest, a furnace of words: "I prefer not writing separate from other human occupations and professions, where there are moments of great concentration, even whole days of a concentration immense, also from the sheer effort. "This explains why the poetry of Dana Gelinas, is so specific, so close, so far from the aesthetic ideal, and yet so frighteningly close to beauty. His eyes were so sensitive to mourn the incomprehensible heinous acts of this world, it also explains his desire for transformation.
Born in Monclova, Coahuila, on March 25, 1962, Dana Gelinas was a landmark in the very prestigious award Aguascalientes, which won in 2006 with the book Boxers (Joaquín Mortiz / INBA, 2006), which develops more accurately vein discovered in his first book, Under a sky of lime (Fondo Editorial Tierra Adentro, 1991) and where, the poet's own words, "I began a search of all that time I thought nothing poetic." Impressionist poet, strongly influenced by Ernst Stadler, Georg Heym, also by Anna Akhmatova, Boxers is the apotheosis of art to contemplate and reflect on everyday life, in spite of daily life, with substantial early hint of irony in the book winner Tijuana National Poetry 2004, Polyester (Municipal Institute of Arts and Culture, 2004), which allows small poetic portrait of Bill Gates, whom no one would stop to see how a child alone: \u200b\u200b"The boy Bill Gates has eyes translucent / and sharp teeth (...) Invent parallel universes / network for the planet / and a network for network / in case. "(" The Boy Bill Gates ", p. 13). An act that seems so commonplace as going shopping, is transformed into Boxers in a climb to the paradise of lingerie that sooner or later lead to the purgatory of Credit and Collection, inspired by Dante and Francois Villon, "do not know how (Villon) did not die of laughter when drafting your Will. I think, and I know I read the Inferno of Dante (Paradise do not remember much), somehow, not that tone of voice should not those same people, but we have the same hobby to insist on putting people in separate sites, sometimes as joking ... "He says
also been inspired in a scene from Chaplin, which is trapped along with his beloved hungry in a large empty warehouse where they slide together like ice skaters. Wandering around a department store in the heart of San Valentín, while you think of "the ventricles of the heart, the poet gives the challenge to sublimate the typical middle-class frivolity, extol the beauty ideal of the dummies and probing the philosophical involves the trinkets or the need to own them and show them off, even more complex. Advertising fills our lives, Dana seems to be saying is there, without even looking, invasive, everyday. A exercise which in itself requires the use of humor, contrary to canon purist who can not conceive of the poem emerges autoneg laughter, tears of laughter: "(...) and I give a damn metaphor / any rhyme unintentional / measured verse , / in fact, the art and science / horn I care, nor distracted me the satellite / phone / the weather ... "(" David Beckham ", p. 32). Dana
Boxers ran the risk of being misunderstood by emphasizing the prejudices that women's status generated, although, as noted above, the emphasis on the supposed nature of the woman consumer leads to irony and, therefore, in evidence of the stereotype, widely used in narrative action, particularly that written by women, but rarely, rarely, in poetry. His speech loving, highly sophisticated, minimalist is not, as in polyester, other than the vehicle for the manifestation of a strong social conscience, even feminist. Articles-bait in the poet encourage a reflection about the social and gender bias, overlapping the consumption habits (his own voice, as mentioned, represents the very object of prejudice, which leads to a strong critical and ideological and therefore political): "I think no man know / what it means / wear sneakers glass. / There are two torture / dos curses / two glass pedestals / are a kind of security / go to hell. "(" Italian Shoes ", p. 45). That's right: the poet ostensibly out around the Appliances department because "it gives me a headache." Nor does it include the Department of Whites, "The real culprits that have left out the issue of bed sentimental eroticism is so connected to the ardent desire of consumption." Dana brings a genuine poetry in advance almost overwhelmed by the established notion of "poetry" poetry negating stereotypes and archetypes as seen in the first interview that was done to Following the acquisition of Aguascalientes, where the reader confesses: "everything", even and especially the significant silences: "I think poetry is primarily a reading of the things that have not yet been said, that still silent. "
Altos Hornos The muted contrasts with the bustle of Boxers:" I do not know if it was one of those afternoons of dust when I discovered my vocation as a poet, recalls Dana, under a twilight sulfur, maroon, when almost I almost convinced myself that I should write about what was beautiful, sea or very green, and angry ... "In Altos Hornos introduces us to the different areas you are so familiar, their own home and the factory where steel is forged, and establishes a kind of symbiosis between this and the forging of a conscious creative, artistic, "My eyes became lost in the gym complex / wave expansive / hitting retina and brain / to be silent witnesses to the creation of steel. / All this is real, burst, / how the hell you call / write about things that do not exist? "(p. 14). Along with the social-creative consciousness awakening political consciousness, the poet is fascinated by the possibility that those furnaces emergence of a solid fusion of all colors (blue oxide, violent purple), a specific act of creation, not reflected or premeditated like the poetry. But it also assumes that there are committed injustices that men and women die in fulfilling a duty low-paid factory orphans and misery alleviated, "When I saw the women of Kuwait / hold your nose black veil over your mouth for between wells incinerantes / a workers in their home, / I remembered the handkerchief on my nose, / scented fabric softener / oxygen and / until a wisp of nothing, or gravity alone, / sulfur molecules disappeared / that they had entered the house. "(p. 18). Among the sulfur molecules that slip in his books, Dana provides a world that is making its own recreated, filtering slowly through your veins, until it became absolute, language. Again, his pulse pounding the shore to bring the ugliness and cruelty to the aesthetics of poetry, to rise above the words, holding the reins with the same firmness with which subjects to combine beauty and irony.
Dana Gelinas has also been characterized as a translator of great poets like the American Pulitzer, WD Snodgrass (The needle of the heart, bilingual edition, Editorial Aldus, Mexico, 1999), a poet very discursive, unlike her, but as Dana, very visual. He currently lives in Mexico City with her husband, also Héctor Carreto Aguascalientes Award, and two daughters. Write a story book for children, "I get up early and think of a children's story."
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