libro de poemas

I take very seriously my career, so is very demanding to read all the bibliography of all the subjects.  Nevertheless, I always try to keep reading literature.  To be honest in this period of the year I don’t have the time to read something on my own. So today I talk about a pending book that I did not manage to finish. This is a poetry book which I don’t remember very well, but is an anthology which the last poems of Bukowski. The most interesting anecdote about this anthology is that was the own Bukowski who decided what poems include in the anthology. I was really enjoying to read him. He is an excellent poet (he is better poet than novelist). These poems are characterized for relate to the death. In these poems we find a different Bukowski who leaving his sordid style away (giving it another connotation to be more specific), show to us the depth and the poverty of the life. The poems we find in this book are heartbreaking for the crudity with Bukowski wrote it.

I think his work as a poet merits a thorough reading, an analytical reading. Is not enough reading from the pure emotion or from the identification with the situations he relates.  It is important to establish a distance between the poems and the reader. 

sorry for the late. Now I feel better

I love Santiago. I think it is a creative city.  I really like to walk looking for new beautiful places with my boyfriend Pablo.  We always discover new Cafés, parks, bars and vegetarian restaurants.  Probably our favorite places to go are the libraries. We love spend our afternoons looking for books in many different libraries even if we don’t buy any book. There are different type of these shops. There are libraries that only sell new books: we don’t like these so much because they have  the best sellers published recently. On the other hand, there are libraries that sell new and old books where you can find some titles discontinued in the most of publisher house. One of my best libraries is one that is located in Santa Isabel very close to Barrio Italia. This place is amazing.  They have really good poetry, sociology and philosophy’s books that you can only find there. In the beginning this place worked just like a library, but now, they also have a little Vegan Café: the guys prepare exquisite cakes. I love it. My boyfriend and I go to this place all Saturdays and we spend all our day looking  for the best book while we talk about theory or literature. I love his company. The best part of the day is the last, when the night comes we share a brownie with tea. Then we go to our home for cooking something tasty.

sadness is rebellion

I think happiness is overvalue. All the people want to be laughing and smiling all the time. If people see you serious or pensive they think you have a bad day. There is the irrational idea that happiness is the right way to live or the most important life’s goal. I think the real happiness is related with the pleasure of accept and living the bad times intensely without putting things between you and the suffering.

I don’t know if there exists something or someone that makes me happy I’m not looking for it. But certainly there are short events or practices that make me feel really good. Probably the most effective would be the sport. I train everyday (with the exception of Sundays) in my gym. Although I prefer practice sports in Green areas, gym works to me. I love to exercise my body because when I’m doing it I feel really connect with me. When I train I’m alone with myself, there are not intermediary between my body and I. Also, I like the interactions with the other people that go to the gym. It’s very comfortable to me go to the gym because anybody is pretending to be you friends All the conversations is restrict to ask for you water bottle or for asking help with a machine you don’t know how to use. There are little social interactions that make feel more pleasure that the gym interactions.

clase fome

The easiest exercises were the Reading area. Is very easy to me understand English when I have to read it. I think I understand the logical of this language. Although the vocabulary area was a little more difficult. I have to improve my English vocabulary. The most difficult part was the listening exercises. I have to work this area with  a lot of practice.