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THE MEMORY OF THE MIRROR - 

VOLUME II - 

1998 

Poems by 

CLAUDIO SERRA BRUN (Argentina – Spain) 

and Music by 

ENRIC MURILLO (Spain) 

Tuesday, June 29th, 1999. 

The work THE MEMORY OF THE MIRROR Volume II will be presented at the Valencia Authors Society 

Poems: Claudio Serra Brun 

Music: Enric Murillo 

Comments: 

The series THE MEMORY OF THE MIRROR constitutes a new experience within the actual poetic panorama. The union with music provides poetry with the chance of being heard, not read, and this combination adds new and present-day resonances to the poetic message it tries to convey. 

The selection of the registry format, compact disc and tape, drifts Claudio Serra Brun’s poems away from the restraints printed paper has; restraints such as its elevated cost and limited diffusion, and at the same time it approaches the work of the poet and the musician, through wide channels of mass diffusion, to a great multitude of listeners from America and Spain who do not read poetry, but who purchase and listen to music frequently with their walkmans, at work or while driving. Thus we offer an option, a parenthesis to today’s youth in their addiction to rock music: they can dispose of the poems and of a few minutes of reflection to think about the topics they embrace. 

For an artist, social function is the only thing that matters; all of the other aspects of culture are accessories and therefore denigrate and degrade the artistic work. The artist should not base the projection of its work on institutions, on awards, on subventions, on the very friendly ones, on mundane cocktails. The art work should always have as its main goal the communication with the audience, which is the one and only supporting and defender of the artist’s work. 

The artistic work comes to life and unrolls naturally in society, communicating it. In a slow spiral that departs from the author and that is divulged through personal circles, it achieves, little by little, their positive judgment and helps combining itself with similar artistic expressions managing to go up the ladder that leads to a wider diffusion of its message, without worrying about the path, since it is this same one that should produce the aesthetic experience and the happiness that produces the interaction with other intellectuals. 

This, I think, is probable the most important legacy and at the same time the most forgotten one in the centenary of Federico Garcia Lorca: his experience at La Barraca, to travel around Spaniard towns, with a group of theater actors... 

Federico, bringing the classic theater to every town and ambassador of the Spanish language in our sister, America, awaking people’s ideal of happiness that art comes with and the thought, a true lesson of freedom: Here you have the master of all artists, the dream of the total artist. 

(English Version: JuanE.Villegas.USA)

CONSECUCIÓN DEL AMOR     

Me habla el aire de tí. 

Me lleva el sol

hacia el fondo recto

de los caminos, 

Y dicen las horas

de solas avenidas

lo que tus verdes ojos

saben de ellas. 

Con asombro llevo mi paso

por lo que has hecho

del sol y la luz

para encontrarnos.

_________________

ATTAINMENT OF LOVE 

The air talks to me about you. 

The sun carries me 

towards the straight depth 

of the alley

And the hours say 

of empty avenues 

what your green eyes 

know of them. 

With astonishment step by step I go  

for what you have done 

of the sun and light 

to meet each other. 

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English version: Juan E.Villegas (USA),2006.