Just over a year published in the Journal of the University an essay on the relationship between Ramon Lopez Velarde and the English poet Alfonso Camin . This text is part of a book velardianos issues that I have been writing, perhaps with excessive parsimony over the last decade. Before that, I wrote and published two jobs: first, on a phrase that my favorite Mexican poet took from tradition (" His tongue is like those other / that the candor of the classical languages \u200b\u200bcalled Arpad [ emphasis added] of the poem "To the fearless mockingbird ..."), I got to know where he came from and what really meant by the scholar Maria Rosa Lida de Malkiel.
The other deals with a late-century poet who was instrumental in Spain in the formation of the first López Velarde, Andres Gonzalez Blanco, and Octavio Paz's views on "soft homeland." I knew little more than memorize the text devoted to the poet Paz Fuensanta, which is in quadrivium and read for the first time on the way to Zacatecas in 1984, a few years ago, living in Asturias, I wanted to reread and another edition Recently, I got out of the Library Pérez de Ayala, Oviedo, met with surprise an upgraded version of the original text. In it, Paz said to detail what he likes and dislikes of the great poem velardiano, which gives me opportunity to make my own reflections, some divergent and opposite to those of him.
In the third text in the series, which prompted this post , I tried a portrait of Alfonso Camin, an immigrant Asturian well known in the English colony in Mexico, which probably arrived in Veracruz the final years of the Revolution. López Velarde, shortly before his death, which occurred on June 19, 1921-four days after turning 33 years ", dedicated to English a little poem in editions of his work often appears just ahead of" soft Patria ":" Alfonso, inquisitor quirky, / I give you my sympathy because you / bat a little canary. " The idea of \u200b\u200bthis work was to answer the following question: if Lopez Velarde spent walking these verses full of sympathy and affection, was it possible, keeping in view the personal archives of the Library Asturian custody Pérez de Ayala, take a tour the texts with which it accounted for?
Towards the end of that work, which appeared in January 2010 in the Journal of the University , I referred to a photo of the funeral Lopez Velarde in which you can recognize a walk. In the commemorative edition of one hundred years birth, velardianos Minutes, published by UNAM in 1988, this picture came out with a foot that has an unjustifiable and fun couple of errors. Published the famous photograph, which did not come out in the university magazine, together with the test piece where it belongs.
A "brave and generous soul who loved stoutly Ramon"
written in the literary game about the life of López Velarde, Guillermo Sheridan, no doubt aware whom and how it was Alfonso Camin, as responsible for the bad time that someone did go public the Mexican poet, as the story told without naming names by Pedro de Alba in trials (reprinted by the INBA in 1988).
One of the friends of the party asked about his frustrated love affair with Margarita Quijano and poet kept a sullen silence and attitude is imperative not to touch that point, a bit hastily dismissed and several months are not addressed the indiscreet. " Do not make me doubt that Pedro de Alba says that it was "a great friend of ours", but describes it as "a great poet", so I'm not sure that fits Camin. What is no doubt that he expressed his admiration for the author of "Sweet Land" and wanted to be near him, whenever he could, in its way. An example: according to Allen W. slogan Phillips, he did appear as a contributor castles and lions, the Spaniard led from 1920 to 1921 but not his own text on your pages.
Writing in 1946, and then a machine point to sheet, as I found and read the papers on his legacy (which houses the Library Pérez de Ayala ) refers Camin who was part of the first guard of honor around the coffin of López Velarde when shrouded in the auditorium of the National University. However, his name does not appear in the listing, most reproduced in the top ten guards that day. revived Perhaps the time as he would have liked it to happen because he says it was formed by two Mexicans (the rector Vasconcelos and Fernandez Ledesma) and two English (the actor Julio Taboada and him).
the Spaniard may have participated in any informal guard prior to the official, although it seems unlikely that was with the presence of the rector.
Instead, Fernandez told Ledesma ( El Universal, June 21, 1924) a significant episode in the same place: "In the terrible night of June 19, 1921, when the coffin that bore the remains of Ramón López Velarde received in the peristyle of the National University honors all Mexico guard intellectual and artistic, the English poet Alfonso Camin, brave and generous soul who loved stoutly to Ramon, he said, from one of the stalls of the cloister a loud voice but with eyes jelled: "My last honor for Ramon will give him more intimately has lived in my bad and good morning: my cloak, I wrap his coffin .... " The gesture deeply touched me my friend but someone who had heard the ardent words of Asturias, foolishly invoked not know what external conveniences in the confusion of those minutes and those who followed could not rectify. This was how beautiful Camín pulse did not take place. "
Camin was also, in the first row, at the funeral of his friend in the French Pantheon, as shown in the photo released that morning. The image reproduces the time when Alejandro Quijano, in the end Photo right, delivers his speech on behalf of the Ateneo de Abogados, then Alfonso Cravioto has already read his name of the University and soon after heard the words of Fernandez Ledesma. Next to it, to the left of the photo, it appears Alfonso Camin, serious, standing, with both hands resting on his cane, among which is the portrait hat hat Cansinos *
[This portrait writing, quoted a few paragraphs earlier in this text as it appeared in 2010, reads: "Tiny but Finch, tartarinesco, with its silky air, his club and his cigar great bohemian hat, his veneer of Fox, in which little ones eyes shine full of malice village and large scarf, is a curious mixture of innocence and mischief. "]
is exaggerated nonsense that you can get the oblivion to which a writer is cast: the issue commemorating the centenary of the birth of López Velarde made by the University, called Minutes velardianos , plays that image, and Camin, according to the caption, appears become nothing less than José Vasconcelos.
air Hispanic shared and mustache, which must have deceived who thought he could identify the characters eye from a photo taken almost seventy years ago. Of course you do not stop suspect the whole thing is a joke because getaway to the editor because then says that whoever is by road, which is none other than Fernandez Ledesma, is "Adolfo López Mateos, Mexico's next president "!
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* In an interview with Beatriz Reyes Nevares more than forty years after [The funeral] - always , August 11, 1965 -, roads located in the cemetery the episode of the layer, which reappears, and in diabolical sway: that day, he says, "I took my coat on earth the grave. She wanted to cover his body. Someone took it. I do not know if it was Don Alejandro Quijano. "
Camin's portrait I've scanned a copy of his book of poems Quousque tandem ...? , published in Mexico in 1920, I bought in Donceles. When I found him, the book was likely to be stripped and had one of the first pages that photo, that is priceless. The oval frames drawn that may be the hat with a feather, and the cane, which Cansinos ironically called "stick."
The young man walked the photo I borrowed the blog Albino Suárez (http://albinosuarez.blogspot.com/), specializing in life and work of the Spaniard.
trials published as part of my book veladiarnos topics are:
1. "The teacher in the world. A digression (sick) subjective two-plus editions Celestina velardiano added, "which appeared in the magazine Nexos in March 2005 (...).
2. "Back on the road of passion," which appeared in issue 11, January 2005, the Journal of the University ( http://bit.ly/f37DXM ) .
3. "Among the canary and the bat. The Spaniard friend López Velarde, "which was published in issue 71, January 2010, the Journal of the University ( http://bit.ly/b1iBm5 ).
velardianos Minutes. Testing tribute to the Centenary of Ramón López Velarde was published by the Institute of Aesthetic Studies at UNAM and Centennial Commemoration Commission Ramon Lopez Velarde in 1988. It has a foreword by Elisa García Barragán and brings together texts, among others, Luis Miguel Aguilar, José Joaquín Blanco, Gonzalo Celorio, Beatriz Espejo Felipe Garrido, Carlos Monsivais, Vicente Quirarte and Luis Mario Schneider.
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