Fri,
17:30
Poetry Talk with Olvido García Valdés
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Olvido García Valdés (born 1950 in Asturias) is considered one of the most significant voices in contemporary Spanish poetry. Even Roberto Bolaño, who generally paid little attention to Spanish poetry, wrote with great admiration in an essay: “I read ella, los pájaros in one sitting, a collection of Olvidio’s poems that dazzled me in the way only true poetry can.”
For the body of her work, García Valdés has been awarded the most prestigious Ibero-American poetry prizes, the Premio Pablo Neruda (2021) and the Premio Reina Sofía (2022). This makes it all the more astonishing that the first translation of her work has only recently been published. Translated by Cecilia Dreymüller as Jagd bei Nacht (KLAK Verlag 2023), the book was originally published in Spanish under the title caza nocturna (Ave del Paraíso, 1997). This volume contains poems that shed light on García Valdés’ poetics, such as when, echoing Käte Hamburger’s The Logic of Literature, she writes: “Was ich sage, ist wahr, jedes / Wort, die Logik des Gedichts spricht / vom Gedicht.” A poem is a central space for attentive observation and perception. Paintings also serve as starting points for contemplation. In clear, reduced language, the obvious is transformed into the essential, transience into eternity, the insignificant into the significant. In an interview, García Valdés suggested, “I have always thought that poems are what life leaves us, what remains of it.”
Olvido García Valdés in conversation with Ana Rocío Jouli
The event will be interpreted into German and Spanish. Kindly supported by ECHOO Konferenzdolmetschen.
Kindly supported by: Instituto Cervantes
The event takes place at silent green's Atelierraum.
- Olvido García Valdés
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Location:
silent green
Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin
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Admission:
9/7 €
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