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The poet Luis García Montero will star, this Saturday, November 11, two literary acts that have been programmed by the poetry festival Deslinde, organized by the Department of Culture of the City of Cartagena, a very intense weekend in poetic and musical activity .
The poet will be in the morning in a meeting with readers in the neighborhood of José María la Puerta and in the afternoon he will review his work with a recital at the Museo del Teatro Romano.
The mayor of Culture, David Martinez, believes that "this initiative confirms the bet we make from Deslinde to bring poetry to all corners of our town, making it more free and accessible.
The union of a poet from the literary and personal category of Luis García Montero, an association such as the Botica del Libro, with the great work he develops in Cartagena is a success. "
'A NEIGHBORHOOD AND A POET'.
At 12:00 hours, the act 'A neighborhood and a poet: Encounter of Luis García Montero with La Botica del Libro' will be held.
Intervene, in addition to the poet, Isabel Gallego and Ana Martinez, teachers of Adult Education and founders of The Botica del Libro.
It will be in the neighborhood association of the neighborhood José María de Lapuerta (c / Garellano s / n).
The entrance is free.
In addition to the poets, the readers of the 'Botica Infantil', 'With poetic recipe to love', as well as members of the 'Botica de Adultos' will intervene in the act.
The Botica del Libro is an integration project through reading.
It takes place in Cartagena and takes place in two neighborhoods of the city: Lo Campano and José M. Lapuerta.
Its lines of action are focused on intercultural education, gender equality and social inclusion, intercultural coexistence and fight against racism and xenophobia.
The main objective of the project is to promote integration spaces through the book, enabling intercultural encounters and collaborating in the development of social and personal skills of young people, adults and children from both neighborhoods.
In this sense, La Botica del libro proposes reading as the way to cure certain personal and social problems, it is about transforming the social reality of the environment through cultural activities that make possible the participation of all the groups in the neighborhoods where it is located. .
RECITAL IN THE ROMAN THEATER
In the afternoon, at 7:00 pm, Luis García Montero will review his long poetic career that began in 1980, and read some of his poems in the auditorium of the Roman Theater Museum.
An act in which the poet Antonio Marín Albalate also intervenes.
Admission to this event is free until full capacity is reached.
LUIS GARCÃA MONTERO
Luis García Montero (Granada, 1958) is a poet and Professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Granada.
He is the author of eleven poems and several essay books.
He received the Adonis Award in 1982 for The Foreign Garden, the Loewe Prize in 1993 and the National Literature Prize in 1994 for Separate Rooms.
In 2003, with the intimacy of the snake, he was awarded the National Prize for Criticism.
Of his many publications of poetry, narrative and essay, we will now highlight the most recent: 'A reader called Federico García Lorca' (Taurus, 2016), 'Ballad in the death of poetry' (Visor, 2016), and the edition of his 'Complete Poetry (1980-2015)' (Tusquets Editores, 2015).
Of this last book his editors emphasize that "Luis García Montero brings together in this volume thirty-five years as a poet." Ordered and in definitive edition, his ten books are included in this complete Poetry (1980-2015), with which he has drawn one of the most coherent and most ambitious and talented trajectories of recent Spanish poetry: Poems of Tristia, The foreign garden, Accomplice diary, The flowers of the cold, Separate rooms, Completely Friday, The intimacy of the serpent, Besides, Weary sight and A winter itself. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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