LA MEMORIA DEL ESPEJO Volumen 5 Poemas/ The Memory of the Mirror Volume 5 Poems

About the Book

(...) I must say that this book (and disk in the first edition) is the result of two years of reflection and maturation, but that its genesis, its booster, traces back to a decade ago, to the days in which I climbed the hills of the Andean Mountains, in the frontier between Bolivia and Argentina, when I was doing an investigative report about those peasants whose job was to cut the salt leafs, at heights as much as 4500 meters above sea level; dried residue of an old sea enclosed in geologic times, when the earth was growing, indefinitely, towards the sky, and was raising an entire sea between its arms of mountains, in a spectacle that is not within the reach of human time and imagination. (...) Thus was I going through those mountains, as I was saying, with the sight lost in the horizon’s crystalline line, with the secret intuition of having crossed the threshold of a new vision; of having found the sudden and flashing bond of odd facts, lengthily meditated in previous years. There are times in which chances shows us the vivid face of our thoughts, the driving thread of our dreams. (...) Yo, aquel día en un pueblo del Altiplano de los Andes, vivificado por el color y la música de la gente, comprendí que la vida se teje con los hilos del azar, pero que los puentes entre los hombres se hacen con hilos de palabras, que enlazan los corazones en parábolas lejanísimas, alentadas al vuelo por una música que se encuentra en todos nosotros, y que nos alimenta y nos acompaña siempre. Yo quise en este trabajo de poemas y música, traerles a ustedes el silencio de las alturas, retener para el futuro un acorde, el rumor del viento por las alamedas, una voz y unas líneas escritas, un pensar. (...) Dedico con humildad este trabajo de poemas y música a los paisanos de Jujuy, de La Pampa, de Bolivia, a los paisanos de la Meseta Eterna Castellana, y a Juan Larrea y a César Vallejo, a su fraternal concepción de nuestra cultura. Y a todos los caminantes de sueños por un mundo mejor. ©ClaudioSerraBrun, 2002-2015.

About the Author

Claudio Serra Brun conjuga en LA MEMORIA DEL ESPEJO - Poesía y Música de Europa y América, en su primera edición en formato CD, sus poemas con la música de compositores europeos y americanos. En esta quinta entrega y edición en libro, el Autor construye una historia, lírica e intemporal, un poema sinfónico desde las alturas de la Cordillera de los Andes. En palabras del autor: "...Espero y deseo que esta forma de combinar la poesía con los contenidos de la música popular, cale hondo en los Autores de todo el mundo de la cultura hispanoamericana, y que florezcan producciones de igual tenor en todos los países hermanos de América. Es un compromiso ético inexcusable del artista el intentar llegar a todos, a los que leen y a los que no leen, a la juventud que anhela certezas y valores en la vida, que busca amar, pensar, creer, pero tambien a "los secos de corazón, y a los híspidos como torres", en palabras del gran Vicente Aleixandre. " (Pedro Bertrán.Octubre 2002, Valencia, España). In THE MEMORY OF THE MIRROR – Poetry and music from Europe and America, in it first edition in CD format, Claudio Serra Brun blends his poems with the music of European and American composers. In this fifth volume, he builds a lyric and eternal history, a symphonic poem from the heights of the Andean Cordillera. “...I hope and wish that this way of bringing poetry to the contents of the popular music, manage to pierce through the souls of all the authors from around the world which are part of the Hispanic American culture, and that productions such as this, grow in other countries of the American continent,” said its author, Claudio Serra Brun. It is the author’s inexcusable ethical compromise to try to reach everyone: the ones that read and the ones who don’t, the youth which yearns for certainties and values in life, which seeks to love, to think, to believe, but also – according to the great Vicente Aleixandre - to the “undemonstratives of heart, and the people who are scabrous like towers.” (Pedro Bertrán. October 2002, Valencia, Spain).