The album with the photos of a poet’s wedding

Creatively speaking, 2020 has been conducive to the poet from Zaragoza Ramiro Gairín Muñoz, who has published two collections of poems this fateful year. One of them is Get here, published by the Huelva Versatile Editorial, which could be said to be a very appropriate book to read in these times when the pandemic has modified the way we relate to each other, since it is born from coexistence and love, which breathe the life necessary to construct the poem.

These, then, are some poems that actually arise from two authorsSince, indeed, all of them start from the pen of the poet who signs them, they could not be conceived or understood without the existence of the person to whom they are addressed. This sincere intensity makes you like to go through the collection of poems from beginning to end, in which love permeates what is within the reach of the poet’s gaze, dyes it with its own tones and in one way or another gives it its ultimate meaning.

Those things and situations that become important when touched by the accompanied gaze are everyday, and they become even more accessible and recognizable for the reader. The arrival at one’s home, a day of hiking in the mountains, the mere ride in the elevator before the workday forks the roads or the conversation that recounts that day, at the end of the day, are some of those moments at the same time small but fundamental that take on a poetic body thanks to the fact that the author has the opportunity to share them. Even not so good moments are revealed thanks to the light of that coexistence, as in the poem Balance, with some verses that the current situation makes them read differently: “The world is going to continue full of things / that are not scared / the strange name of the disease.”

A poet’s wedding photo album surely will contain verses instead of images. This is what Ramiro Gairín offers in Arriving here, a book that we like to return to to relive the memory and strengthen the present.

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