[Week 119] Weekend Reading: Poetic Repertoire

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Hello, my dear community, health, and prosperity to all. This time I select the theme "Weekend Reading", Poetic Repertoire. My thanks to

@galenkp, creator of this wonderful initiative that helps me to remember and create.

This weekend I am reading the Repertorio Poético by Luis Edgardo Ramírez. This book brings back memories of my adolescence, my beloved mother on weekends, at snack time would read our poems from this Repertoire, she would tell us to pay attention so that we would learn to read the poems with good rhythm and tone of voice. This is the first reason I am reading it because it brings to my mind beautiful moments I lived with my mother who is now in heaven. I remember that, at that time, I learned a poem by heart that has ten stanzas, entitled "NOCTURNO", its author, the Mexican Manuel Acuña, I share with you the first two stanzas and the page of the book.

NIGHT TIME
Well then! I need to
To tell you that I adore you,
Tell you that I love you
with all my heart;
That I suffer so much,
that I cry so much,
that I can no longer do so much,
and I cry out to you that I implore you,
I implore you and I speak to you in the name
of my last illusion.

I want you
To know that for many days now
I am sick and pale
From so much sleeplessness;
That all my hopes have died
My hopes have died,
That my nights are black,
So black and gloomy,
That I know not where
The future was rising.

Another reason why I am reading this book is because I had never read it before, and I was curious to know about the life of the author my mother admired so much. Now I know that this poet was also a singer. I know that he worked for several years on a radio station where he was asked to recite his poems and poems by other authors from countries he didn't know, but to please his audience, he researched and recited them. Because of the above Ramírez began to be clear about the poems that people liked and he decided to make this Repertoire with all the poems that he was asked to recite on the radio station. That is why I see in this book that there are Mexican, Spanish, Venezuelan, Chilean, Colombian, Argentinian, Uruguayan, Cuban, French, and Nicaraguan poets (as far as I have read).

Bonus points for telling us what the next book is your
list to read is and why?

The next book I am going to read is called "Other Colours" by Orhan Pamuk.

I'm going to read it because it caught my attention in two aspects: first, it won the Novel Prize for Literature in 2006, and second because it is a "compilation of essays, interviews, and extracts from Pamut's personal diaries, ranging from autobiographical and humorous texts to essays on culture and political analysis" (according to the book's back cover).