The Poetry of Alfonso Cortez

The true poet is he who inspires ... Paul Valery Nicaragua has been home to poets who have left their poems with great significance and fortunately some have gone into them more, they have provided those born in León Santiago de los hair, as is the case we are concerned, Alfonso Cortez. Note that one of its peculiarities in poetry was the mystical involve the respect given our way through the country remembered, we can not ignore the contribution of this poet, who once Dr.Juan me the God present yourselves Vanegas, when he served as rector of the Univerwsidad of Leon. On some views have been given comoThomas Merton, the great American poet and monk, and translator into English of the poetry of Cortez says, "Cortés wrote one of the deeper poetry" metaphysical "existence. Obsessed by the nature of the Actually, this poet intuits the inexpressible. " Meanwhile, Joaquin Pasos, said of this sublime genius: "Alfonso Cortes has the soul of wood. It is hard and rough, like a true original, and perhaps by instinct works. But harmony was born with one hand.

Trained under the tutelage of Darius, Verlaine, and other symbols, walk with them, but they were yelling and hitting forward comes to us alone. He will feel, as we feel it. He is our forerunner. Because it is strongly poet. Has the force of poetry, the durability of stone rock, that spiritual muscles and stunning strikes. Alfonso Cortes is a giant capable of killing any of a scream. And sometimes it's sad, very sad, because the bird can not fly his soul as pequeños.Y horizons also carries a tragedy, the great tragedy of his vida.Conociendo Alfonso Cortes, pain and strength, is when I am outraged these bourgeois stupid. Morons! "Okay Wikipedia gives us very little since revealed his vocation to the art of literature began to create his first poems at the age of seven years. His studies were conducted in the city of Leon coming to fourth year secondary. During his youth he learned several languages ​​including English, French, Italian and Portuguese. It is influenced by the esoteric and is fond of reading French symbolism and the same Rubén Darío. Provides dariana.com, who was born in Leon in 1893 .

One night in February 1927, at the house where he lived, the same manor of Rubén Darío, went mad

In 1920, he traveled to Mexico with the purpose of attending the First Congress of Hispanic American journalists, in return stops in Guatemala where he participated in 1921con his poem "The Odyssey of the Isthmus? Games in Quezaltenango Flower getting the first prize. The following year he returned to Nicaragua. On February 18, 1927 goes into crazy reason not to ever recover, but at the same time continuing his literary work, the first poem written in this schizophrenic state is "The Song of space." He lived in the old house where Ruben Dario spent his childhood and says that the house went crazy in 1927. His family kept him locked up for his crisis of rage and sometimes were chained to a ceiling joist. It is said that one of these closures, and being crazy, he wrote his famous poem "Window", originally called "a detail", it was inspiration for the first song I wrote Hernaldo fellow Zúñiga titled "Windows", with which won third place in his first two appearances in the International Song Festival of Vina del Mar in its fifteenth edition in 1974 in Chile.

Because his schizophrenia remained bound by chains fastened to the ceiling, until in 1944 he was admitted to the mental hospital in Managua. In Managua is the subject of many tributes for his outstanding literary. In 1951 he was transferred to Costa Rica but three months later returned to their country of origin is moving again to Leon for his family where he is honored again. The National Autonomous University of Nicaragua granted the title of Doctor Honoris Causa, but dies shortly after the February 3, 1969. Reference may be made to Alfonso Cortez went crazy. He is a victim of the madness from the age of 30 years. He spent part of his childhood in his hometown and much of his life in mental prisons in both Nicaragua and Costa Rica. His poetry is born precisely of the ideas in your subconscious, is closely related to questions of existence, death, space ... He wrote countless poems, however, considered best were made in the time of his juventud.y on that fact has been written in the room of the house where he was chained because of its crisis of anger, there was a window old colonial bars.

There it is said that he wrote his famous poem "A detail." Jose Coronel Urtecho suggested that we change the title to "Window", argomento, "" a detail "and why a particular and not a window? A dark prison of high walls and a window. I have asked myself constantly I wonder: Is this the most beautiful poetry of the Spanish language? The most beautiful poetry of all languages? The recite to myself every time I want to get away, get out, feel superior to me. I do not know what a poem that makes it superior to the other, but did nothing higher Ruben, nothing faster, nothing escaped? Nothing Can we add, that already in the asylum where he spent much of the rest after his life, Alfonso said - explains Ernesto Cardenal - "that the poem refers to the blue eyes of a woman whose name - Angelica is written in it." It is noteworthy that Ruben Dario considered his "rival," I am less than Dario Sarmiento - Rubén Darío - but deeper, I am as a minor poet Quevedo, "he claimed. dariana.com brings his body rests in the Cathedral of Leon, but his spirit, "mountain man chained to a lily" and "azure intoxicated", is rowing, "pinching the skin of the Night", asking questions to God, defending the wild, showing us the way.

Most of his poems were collected by Ernesto Cardenal in a book called Alfonso 30 poems published in Managua in 1952 Very interesting to note that says Jorge Eduardo Arellano on the Poet Cortez, who does not know another poet in Latin America Nicaraguan insane as Alfonso Cortes in the modern, soon gave a mysterious poetry before going crazy on the night of February 17, 1927. Without any radical significance in the author's work, beginning with this century, that actually came to make sense of his poetry imbued with strange impetus, as he said in an autobiographical composition. But that's one of the many pages beyond its true essence, marked by shortages, concentration and complexity. Alfonso there is only one and not several, as written, simply, those others are him, or rather nothing to do with your inner world objectified reduced in those poems aptly called Alfonsine and just spend thirty. Alfonso then appropriates the immensity-up flight to where its being-and heritage becomes essential. Moreover, space is not being delivered to the measure, the reflections of the geometer, but it is lived: concentrate on your imagination, integrates with your mood in that sense, his awareness of space is also lucid (as of the time): "This desire of relativity / contemporary life-is-/ which gives the space an importance / that is only in us ...? ("Song of Space?).

His published works are summarized as follows: The Odyssey of the Isthmus (Guatemala 1922) Poetry (Managua 1931) Golden Afternoon (Managua 1934) Eleusa Poems (León 1935) The music of existence (1932) 30 poems of Alfonso (Managua 1952) The 7 torches of the sun (Leo 1952) Universal Rhymes (Managua 1964) The songs of the people (Managua 1965) The doors of the hobby (Managua 1967) The Space Song